What happened when Turkey hosted African Americans in the 1950s?
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What happened when Turkey hosted African Americans in the 1950s?
Yesterday the world remembered Martin Luther King, Jr. We take a look back at the 1950s when Turkey's ambassador stood up to US officials and fought for the rights of African Americans.
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