Özet:

This study issues the relationship between representations and traditions in the African-Turkish specialty with identity. The issue of identity is being studied together with representation and tradition; the African-Turkish community's day with the day, while building the link of today, goes through the trace of the slavery past. This study, adapted to the master's thesis completed with ethnographic research conducted by a year participating observations and deep discussions in the villages of Hasköy, Yeniçiftlik and Çırpı connected to İzmir, is questioning the discrimination found in the representations; it studies the historic relationship of the African diaspora with slavery and investigates the change that occurs in community traditions. In this way, the impact of collective memory on representation, tradition and identity also shows itself. As a result of silicated and lost traditions, in the process of identification between the Afro-Turkish, the unifying ethno-cultural identity and collective memory, the color of the skin preserves the symbolic meaning. The study suggests that the ethno-cultural identity of the Afro-Turkish people (rebuilt) with the mission of the Association of African Culture, Solidarity and Assistance to revive the traditions and rebuild the collective memory.

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