Despite many Western sources ignoring his story, Ahmet Ali Celikten, an Ottoman military officer, was the first black pilot in history
Who was the first ever black pilot? Many historians argue that it's either an Ottoman military officer Ahmet Ali Celikten or an American aviation graduate Eugene Jacques Bullard.
During World War I, Ahmet Ali Celikten standing with his colleagues at Yesilkoy Naval Aircraft School. According to Tugrul Oguzhan Yilmaz, a research fellow at the Association of Researchers on Africa, Emine gave birth to three children, including Celikten. He went to primary school in Izmir. During his childhood days, he spent a lot of time in the sea. As he came of age, he received an admission at Haddehane School in 1904, where the Ottoman navy trained its new recruits. He graduated four years later and joined the Ottoman Army as lieutenant with the registration number 1394.
In between, he went to Berlin to study naval aviation. He returned to Turkey in 1918. Around the same time the Ottoman Empire withdrew from World War I and the Allied powers seized Turkish aircrafts. As the Entente states placed a ban on Turkish flights, the Ottoman military had by then turned into freedom fighters, launching the Turkish War of Independence from Anatolia. Celikten was quick to join the nationalist movement.
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