#Turks

An introduction to the Indian Ocean slave trade.When many people think of slavery, they think of the translatlantic trade that took place between Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean. The
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Meet #HumanRights activist #SarvarTedorov-leader of deported #MeskhetianTurks who began his activism in Soviet #Uzbekistan fighting for right of his people to return to their homeland in #Georgia until violence in
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This is Bishop Robert Caldwell, celebrated missionary and scholar, who published in 1856 the "Comparative grammar of Dravidian or South Indian Languages". Link:https://archive.org/details/comparativegramm00caldrich/It has a large
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I get asked often if the German response to white supremacist violence gives me hope and/or is a useful model for the US. My answers are no and mostly no.
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How Many #Khalistanis know:"Chandi Da Vaar" of Dasam Granthis written by His Holiness Guru Gobind Singhji, 10th Sikh GuruBased on Markandeya Purana , He relates war between Him& Mughals like
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What is Rebetiko? (A thread)In 1923, 2 million Greek refugees (who had never lived in Greece) came to Greece from Asia MinorThey moved into the city slums and brought
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Ok, so here's the deal: - My work computer is broken. - Tech support is massaging it with healing oils or something. - I have to "stand by" to reboot
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(THREAD) Here is a growing list of "Left-ist" YouTubers /Podcasters that I watch/listen to in no particular order. You don’t have to agree with ALL of their takes but
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Armenian Genocide: Armenian Genocide, campaign of deportation and mass killing conducted against the Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire by the Young Turk government during World War I. For centuries
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A thread of all the immigrant food I have eaten in #London. The city has such diverse population and probably one of the best to try food from all over
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Started reading Dharampal’s “Indian science and technology in 18th Century”. The Portuguese, British and the French seize control of the whole of western coast for large parts of the 18th
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Here is a 106 tweet-long megathread to mark the 106 years of the #Armenian #Genocide of 1915-1923, which was committed by the #Ottoman Empire against its #Armenian constituents living all
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Western claims about Greek astronomy and maths in general and about Ptolemy in particular are deeply problematic.We have no sure means to actually know what exactly this ptolemy discovered.why?Thread.https://twitter.com/Hiranyareta/status/1
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And now a super-thread on the winding & complicated (pun intended) history of the tuǧra, a textual feature often defined as a 'calligraphic emblem' for 'Turkic' rulers, though that definition
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HISTORY THREADThis is Monte Melkonian, the strangest, most interesting man of the late Cold War.His story took him from suburban California through the Vietnam War, the Iranian Revolution, the Lebanese
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Okay so I have been meaning to write something about the hijab ban in Turkey, what it meant for the religious community, what did women experience and I wanted to
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