Ahmet Ali Çelikten: The Black Turkish WWI Fighter Pilot
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- How much do you know about Turkish black history? Ahmet Ali Çelikten was an Afro-Turkish pilot who served in World War One. He was one of the first black pilots in aviation history! Hear his story in this 60-second video!
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his nephew is still a Pilot too and this family support Children and young people to become a Pilot - awsome Family Dynastie in Aviation for all time in Aviation History !
Yes, an incredible dynasty!
Acaba onun yeğeni siz misiniz ?
Please hit me up if you know what their relatives' names are! I'm great grandchild of Ismail Hakkı Çelikten who helped build Machinery, chemical and industry factory (MKE) in Ankara (now Kırıkkale) and i know almost nothing about his family history. I would like to know more about my ancestry and far relatives!
I think this is the "best" part about Ottoman Slave trade, i know it's ironic to say "best" but since the slavery wasn't generational and wasn't domestic, people who served the state/sultan had a decent wage, eventually retired, became naturalized citizens, owned land, got married and had kids.
Compared to American slavery where people were owned by individuals, worked to death, forced to "breed" the Ottoman System just feels like being unable to quit a government job, i know it's an over simplification but still... And not having discriminatory laws based on race makes a huge difference.
The grandson of a slave could become a high ranking aviator...
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I love this channel with all my heart
Awwww thank you so much!
@@FreedomIsMineOfficial yes i study African history myself and everywhere Africans was and imigrated to i studied because they often remember the African transatlantic slave trade but they forget the rest of the rest of the middle east and minor Asia and so on
Informative! Thank you
Much love Ahmet
Thank you very much
Interesting
He was the first black pilot - not one of the first
The first black pilot in the military aviation was Domenico Mondelli who was born in and from Asmara Eritrea ( woldesilasie) aka “ black eagle “ received his pilot certificate in February 20,1914 whereas Ahmet ali around June of the same year . ….. so look up the name Domenico Mondelli
slavery seemed to work very differently under the Turks then the rest of the world. The other slaves the janissaries were the richest and most privileged people in the empire.
it comes from classical era slavery. similar to norse thralldom. it is not good mind you, but yes, very different from chattel slavery
Well, actually janissaries were not slaves. They were soldiers in the infantry units of Sultan's personal army and considered properties of Sultan which means that Sultan could punish them (even kill them) without any trial. However, they didn't belong to a lower social class in society. They could be promotee to higher ranks in the government like state governers or ministers (veziers). Unlike european kingdoms, in ottoman empire there was no aristocrat class. Only Sultan's family was considered noble. The class structure in the society was built on religious bases.
they were slaves, taken from their families and "forced" to be the sultans men. Lets not sugar-coat it, slavery was a big part of the Islamic state as slavery has always been part of islamic empires. It was a big part of all empires until very recently. The Ottomans were even taking english, swedish and germans as their slaves.@@emrecig
Billyjesus5442, I think you should rephrase that as American/British slavery worked very differently than the rest of the world. In the US it would be called indentured servitude because there is a finite amount of enslavement (7 years, coincidentally, for both indentured servants---whites---in the US, and slaves in the Ottoman Empire) after which the person was free. In the US, not only was the person not a free person but all of their children and grandchildren and all the way down the line, they were all not free. In the Ottoman Empire every baby was born free, even if born within that 7-year period of enslavement. It was not skin-based as it was in the US. Indeed, the Ottomans often had caucasians (like from the Caucasus mountain area) as slaves. Because all babies were born free there was no incentive of the "owners" of enslaved people to rape them to create more "livestock" (chattle slavery means living inventory or property that is alive). The southwestern coast of anatolia, specifically the province of Aydin, was a place where enslaved folks who finished their terms got land deeds from the sultan and relocated from Istanbul to Aydin (also, in the Americas enslaved people weren't mainly there for housework or as military officers but they were there for field work. Sugar plantations especially had folks dying from the labor within 4 years it was so difficult. Anyway, my point is, it is not the rest of the world that is different, but it is the American/British mindset that is different. That difference caused a skin-based perpetual slavery that other empires like the Ottomans never took part in.
There was no "slave trade" in Osmanlı! Only the enemy soldiers and fugitives were allowed to be enslaved instead of prison sentence. Even then they were paid and they were free to roam the city under supervision. Anyone who is caught trying to sell an abducted person as a slave was executed.
Elaborate before using that word!
The word "slavery" in combination with the Ottoman Empire is really misleading. On paper, the percentage of "slaves" within the Ottoman society might seem high, but one has to bear in mind that the entire staff of the palace and certain troops within the army were per status "slaves" - and thus within the most influential and wealthiest strata of the Empire. Also, there never was a concept of slavery in the OE where thousands upon thousands of people were released on some plantations to work. The life of a slave in the OE would be considered that of a maid according to our understanding - most of those would later be adopted by their families, would be given to marriage to the daughter or son of the house or would become financial heirs of their masters. Still, even those mentioned "slaves"/maids were not an integral part of society but some kind of rare occurrence.
The very word "slave" comes from Slavs and we all know that Slavic/Balkan women and boys were taken, traded, sold in the market. Also men. Unfortunately there was slavery in Ottoman, no matter how much they tried to convince us otherwise. I don't want to say go read Wikipedia, but check their resources there and find out for yourself if this is BS or if we have been brainwashed.
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He was an Ottoman officer not Turkish.
First Ottoman then Turkish military officer. He was an Afro-Turk you know... He served in both Turkish Navy and Airforce soon after Republic of Turkey established. Stop making false claims for the god's sake.
Wtf are you talking about? He served till 1949 in Turkish Airforce.
His surname is literally Turkish, he spoke Turkish and he served to the Turkish. Nationality is not just race, it is culture and belonging to society. You are delusional, your comment is just racist.
He was of mixed heritage. He had Turkish blood in him. He was one of us!
His mother was turkish
he is not turkish he in an Empirial Ottoman soldier , may he rest in peace !CcC
He was Afro-Turkish
Do you mean he wasn't an ethnic Turk? He was born in what is called modern day Turkey but was part of the Ottoman Empire at the time.
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in that time a time a Turk = a muslim speaking turkish whatever his race .
that's why nationalism in Turkey is based on Culture more than ethnicity.
@@essidmedamine8130 he was a Muslim that spoke Turkish. Your first comment was, “He is not Turkish “.
@@abode409 a Turk = a muslim speaking Turkish in in the ottoman empire .
a Turkish = a citizen of the republic of Turkey