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TURKEY HAS CHANGED the name of the street on which the new US embassy will be located to Malcolm X Street, after the American black Muslim civil rights campaigner.
The new American embassy is still being built-in Cukurambar district in Ankara on what was formerly called 1478 street. Construction contractors BL Harbert have said the new complex is expected to be finished by 2020.
The renaming comes after the Ankara city council decision last month to change the name to Malcolm X Street.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised the late campaigner’s daughters that the name of Malcolm X would “live on” in the Turkish capital.
Municipality workers changed the signs of the street on this morning, and AFP correspondent said, as frenetic activity continued on the site.
Malcolm X, one of the most influential African-Americans in history, was an outspoken Muslim advocate of the rights of blacks and remains a hero today to many blacks and followers of Islam.
Turkey has made similar changes to streets on which embassies are located in a bid to make a political point against a country.
When Washington expressed concern over Turkey’s offensive in northern Syria against a US-backed Kurdish militia, Ankara in February renamed the road Olive Branch (Zeytin Dali in Turkish) on which the current US embassy is located after the name of the offensive.
In January, following a spat with the United Arab Emirates over the Ottoman Empire’s actions in Medina, Ankara renamed the street where the UAE embassy is after the Ottoman governor of the time.
Outside of Turkey, Iran most notably renamed the street on which the British embassy sits in Tehran to Bobby Sands Street, after the Provisional IRA hunger striker.
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If memory serves, Iran named the street in Tehran where the British Embassy was ‘Bobby Sands Boulevard’
@Deaglan Macgiollaphadraig: Didn’t read the article so. :)
@Clifford Brennan: ooops!!!
@Deaglan Macgiollaphadraig: I think there’s another street named after him in Kingston??…
@Bruce van der Gutschmitzer: Paris
@Deaglan Macgiollaphadraig: yes- as mentioned in article
@Deaglan Macgiollaphadraig: The english embassy keyboard warriors around Dublin hate the Iranians for having Bobby Sands street as a permanent reminder. It galls the poor snowflakes.
Glasgow renaming “St George’s Place” to “Nelson Mandela Place” whilst he was still n prison is my personal favourite. Especially since the South African consulate-general was based on the fifth floor of the Stock Exchange building meaning all mail now went to an address with “Nelson Mandela” in it.
One of the best F-U’s ever in my opinion.
@Bob Earner: good in
Turkey the country with over 200 journalists in jail and one if the main weapon suppliers to the Sunni Jahadis and IS in Syria….That Turkey….
@iComment: Malcolm X who said that white people were a race of devils created by an evil scientist named Yakub…that Malcolm X.
@Earth Traveller:
@Earth Traveller: you obviously aren’t familiar with his life and how his ideas evolved over time and he moved away from the Nation of Islam. However, we shouldn’t be surprised that many African Americans held that view considering that Malcolm grew up in the era of Jim Crow and his family were regularly targetted by the Klan and other White Supremacists. To many people, both black and white, he’s an inspiration for his uncompromising opposition to racism.
@Conor Kennelly: Yes, but he continued to stick with a religion whose founder was a slave-owner
@iComment: england and the US have one of the world’s best reporters locked away in the Ecuadorian embassy for 6 years. Julian Arrange faces either execution or lifetime imprisonment for telling the world about english and US involvement in killing thousands of civilians in Iraq.
@Earth Traveller: So did the Jews and Christians. Most wars until the last 50 years started over what an imaginary guy in the sky said to some delerious off their heads nut job.
@Earth Traveller: I think he was predicting the coming of Trump 55 years later as he also referred to an orange monster with a comb over.
@Cal Mooney: Yes indeed. And many Irish were slave-owners too. People like Pierce Butler: one of the so-called ‘founding fathers’ of the USA, one of that country’s biggest slave-owners, and born in County Carlow.
Nowadays we do not venerate people like Butler. On the other hand, the religious founder I referred to above is regarded by his present day followers as the ‘perfect man’.
They should rename the one with the Saudi embassy kashoggi street.
“Bobby Sands Street”
@Briain O’Dochartaigh:
Yes it is Bobby Sands Street.
By way of update the Brits were so annoyed they blocked up the the entrance on Bobby Sands, and built a new entrance to the embassy in Tehran Iran through the back garden so that it is now on Ferdowsi Avenue.
@DeFonz: hee hee. But the official postal address is still Bobby Sands street.
‘Remains a hero to this day to many blacks’ …eh this sentence could be phrased a little better
Top trolling from Turkey
The Turks, a great bunch of lads!
People who listen to or support the likes of Al Sharpton or Louis Farrakan are to be pitied. These men are bitter, narcissistic haters and inciters.
Malcolm X- The house negro and the field negro. youtube.
Ha ha
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