Barbary coast and turkish pirates

Reader comment on item: Berbers as Anti-Islamists and Anti-Arab Nationalists
in response to reader comment: Changing the name of Barbers to Amazighs does not change their history.

Submitted by Aksel (Norway), Mar 7, 2009 at 17:32

to M.D'Souza

Please try to understand that the town was colonised by turkish (ottoman) at that time. The turkish with their arab camarad were the pirates.
The country was inhabited by peaceful Amazigh.

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