Staunchly pro-government media outlets in Turkey are racing with each other to prove that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was right in his recent claim that the Americas were discovered by Muslim sailors long before Christopher Columbus.
“Studies of American
historians show that Islam reached the Americas in the 650s,” daily
Akşam reported on Nov. 17. One of the “historians” that the article
referred to, however, raised some eyebrows on Turkish social media.
