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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks to the media in his office in Ankara, Turkey, on April 23, 2014. (AP Photo)


Opinion: Erdoğan’s Rediscovery of America

Opinion: Erdoğan’s Rediscovery of America

by | Nov 19, 2014 | Opinion

We do not know what prompted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to say, during his reception of a Latin American delegation, that he was certain that Muslims discovered North America 500 years before Christopher Columbus did. The Genoese explorer accidentally...