Editing African diaspora (section)

== Eurasia ==
[[File:An African man in Karabakh by George Kennan.jpg|thumb|Ethnic Caucasian of African origin]]

=== Russia ===
{{Main|Afro-Russians}}

The first Black people in [[Russia]] were the result of [[Ottoman slave trade|the slave trade]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]]<ref name="BR">{{cite web |url = http://www.africana.ru/Golden/info/black_russians_project_engl.htm |title = Лили Голден и Лили Диксон. Телепроект "Черные русские": синопсис. Info on "Black Russians" film project in English |publisher = Africana.ru |access-date = February 22, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110115174736/http://africana.ru/Golden/info/black_russians_project_engl.htm |archive-date = January 15, 2011 |url-status = dead }}</ref> and their descendants still live on the coasts of the [[Black Sea]]. [[Czar]] [[Peter the Great]] was advised by his friend Lefort to bring in Africans to Russia for hard labor. [[Alexander Pushkin]]'s great-grandfather was the African princeling [[Abram Petrovich Gannibal]], who became Peter's protégé, was educated as a [[military engineer]] in France, and eventually became general-en-chef, responsible for the building of sea forts and [[canal]]s in Russia.<ref>Gnammankou, Dieudonné. [http://www.gnammankou.com/publications.htm ''Abraham Hanibal – l'aïeul noir de Pouchkine''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315094553/http://www.gnammankou.com/publications.htm |date=March 15, 2016 }}, Paris, 1996.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.profilebooks.com/title.php?titleissue_id=371 |title = Barnes, Hugh. ''Gannibal: The Moor of Petersburg'' |location = London |publisher = Profile Books |year = 2005 |access-date = February 22, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110114031635/http://www.profilebooks.com/title.php?titleissue_id=371 |archive-date = January 14, 2011 |url-status=dead |df = mdy-all }}</ref>

During the 1930s fifteen [[Black American]] families moved to the [[Soviet Union]] as agricultural experts.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE7D6163AF930A25751C1A964958260 Eric Foner, "Three Very Rare Generations"] review of [[Yelena Khanga]]'s family memoir ''Soul To Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865–1992'', in ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 13, 1992.</ref> As African states [[decolonisation|became independent]] in the 1960s, the [[Soviet Union]] offered their citizens the chance to study in Russia; over 40&nbsp;years, 400,000 African students came, and some settled there.<ref name="BR" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mediarights.org/film/black_russians|title=Film: Black Russians|publisher=MediaRights.org|access-date=February 22, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110417213901/http://www.mediarights.org/film/black_russians|archive-date=April 17, 2011}}</ref>

=== Turkey ===
{{Main|Afro-Turks}}

[[Afro-Turks]] are people of [[Zanj]] ([[Bantu peoples|Bantu]]) descent living in [[Turkey]]. Like the [[Abkhazians of African descent|Afro-Abkhazians]], they trace their origins to the [[Slavery in the Ottoman Empire|Ottoman slave trade]]. Beginning several centuries ago, a number of Africans came to the [[Ottoman Empire]], usually via [[Zanzibar]] as [[Zanj]] and from places such as present-day [[Niger]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Libya]], [[Kenya]] and [[Sudan]];<ref name="todayszaman.com">{{cite web | url = http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=141522 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080827055914/http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=141522 |archive-date = August 27, 2008 |title = Turks with African ancestors want their existence to be felt |work = Today's Zaman |date = May 11, 2008 |access-date = August 28, 2008 }}</ref> they settled by the [[Dalaman]], [[Menderes, İzmir|Menderes]] and [[Gediz, Kütahya|Gediz]] valleys, [[Manavgat]], and [[Çukurova]]. In the 19th century, contemporary records mention African quarters of [[İzmir]], including Sabırtaşı, Dolapkuyu, Tamaşalık, İkiçeşmelik, and Ballıkuyu.<ref name="radikal.com.tr">
{{cite web
 |url = http://www.radikal.com.tr/Default.aspx?aType=Detay&ArticleID=896230&Date=30.08.2008&CategoryID=79
 |title = Afro-Türklerin tarihi, ''Radikal'', 30 August 2008. Retrieved 22 January 2009
 |publisher = Radikal.com.tr |date = August 30, 2008 |access-date = May 3, 2012
}}
</ref> Africans in Turkey are around 100.000 people.
<ref name="trthaber.com">{{Cite web|title=İstanbul'da yaşayan Afrikalıların sayısı 70 bine yakın. Ten renklerinden ötürü ötekileştirilmiyor olmak onları Türkiye'ye bağlıyor.|url=https://www.trthaber.com/haber/yasam/esenyurtun-afrikali-gocmenleri-538129.html|url-status=live|access-date=October 26, 2021|website=www.trthaber.com|date=December 13, 2020 |language=tr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213134049/https://www.trthaber.com/haber/yasam/esenyurtun-afrikali-gocmenleri-538129.html |archive-date=December 13, 2020 }}</ref>