US Embassy in Ankara's new home: Malcolm X Street

By Muhammed Ali Toruntay

ANKARA (AA) - The relocated U.S. Embassy in Ankara will be situated along Malcolm X Street, which was given a new name on Thursday in honor of the civil rights leader.

A new street sign bearing the name “Malcolm X Caddesi” (street) was placed along the street near the site of the future embassy in the capital’s Cankaya district.

In October the Ankara city council unanimously accepted the name change honoring the U.S. Muslim leader and civil rights activist.

Malcolm X was born in 1925, and assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965 in New York City, after a relatively short life of immense struggle for the rights of black people.

The U.S. Embassy in Turkey, long located in the Kavaklidere neighborhood, is due to move westward to Cukurambar, near the Eskisehir Highway.