in a disadvantage suburb of his near the yannick family sits down to breakfast like most afro turd. they are of modest means they have little time to delve into their past . believes his ancestors came from tanzania but that's about all he knows all and if you're going to do it but even if you do want to research it hardly any documents from that time can be found. through. the children haven't learned anything about the history of the african slaves in school leaders it's not even mentioned but they've had their experiences with day to day racism. i really don't like to be in crowds. followed by feel uncomfortable and frightened of the shitter. you know what it was a kid it was worse than budgeting admission to get i was trying to hide under a chair called paul and you have had. the annual afro turk festival concludes with a big picnic the yonex try to get together with other efforts more often these days . sifu here is turkish. music too. but recently grass skirts and brightly colored shirts have become popular. nobody here can afford an actual trip to africa so they're happy to s

on his way to work chain yannick stops by to check on the syrian refugee families in the neighborhood and ask them how they're doing and if they need anything. they call him yelchin brother yeah. it should not be what you need is turkish but in his hometown is mir he's often himself taken for refugee specifically he's an afro turk a descendant of african slaves brought here in the mid 19th century by the ottoman empire. on the streets and even in his own leather workshop he's been called black in a derogatory manner or turkish for arab. these remarks even come from my own acquaintances although they're meant to stroke a year might go by without any remarks like that at all and then i might hear them 10 times in one week. but turks of african origin like nick are growing more confident once a year they celebrate a festival in izmir with people coming all the way from the americas and africa. is mir's mayor also came to underscore his liberal image but many passers by are still surprised that afro turks exist. really these people here i wasn't aware of them. very few of the effort turks

ok but you know chin yannick wants to bring about change here in turkey in 2018 he ran for parliament as a candidate for a left wing party. but he didn't collect enough votes to become the 1st afro turkish representative in the grand national assembly. hello. we're already more visible in many areas of society. now it's time for us to go into politics time for a black president told minister just a black but it. would look almost a good. coach in yannick thinks the time is right some 160 years after slavery was abolished afro turks are demanding their place in turkish society. they live underground and multiplied by the millions rats are a plague in many european cities like lisbon the portuguese capital is struggling to contain rodents which are notorious for spreading diseases so how to control the infestation pesticides traps neither option is ideal so city officials came up with a plan they're calling it a natural predator to sniff out the vermin. they proles through the streets in silent pursuit of their prey. lisbon's cats are helping sort out the city's rodent problem. some 600

everyone is saying are you feeling pressure from your parents to hold as a specific kind of wedding yannick way to make way less new an upgrade. in a tad you. special. ones and when you get. to seclusion of wind and even if you've never ended up when you you know. anyone here who experience pressure from their parents in terms of ok i experience a challenge just morning before leaving for work i got a phone call and setting goals calling me and they say a bear listen. we need something like 5050 dollars and some like a 120007 shillings and i said who are you you say i'm he does friend i came through reading you see that challenge the pressure that the putting on you they contributed to your wedding so you need to to do something about it so this challenges are there i think thank you we've articulated the problems very well i just want to find out how do people end up paying for these debts golden. yes some dates are endless that it's unless they're always endless and. payment could be. explained that if you pay i mean if you contribute to someone's wedding you're committing them to contrib