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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reportedly said of Malcom X: ‘We will make his name live on in Ankara.’

Turkey renames new US embassy street ‘Malcolm X Avenue’

By News & Current Affairs

Move coincides with a period of fraught relations between Turkey and the US and comes after other politically charged name changes to streets in Ankara. City authorities in Turkey’s capital, Ankara, have renamed the street where the new US embassy is being built “Malcolm X Avenue”, after the civil rights leader, state media reported. The move coincides with a period of fraught relations between Turkey and the US…

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