Is Erdogan rewriting history?
Rewriting history according to one’s own religious beliefs is a highly controversial and perilous enterprise.
Erdogan would have done better to recall the anti-Islamic zeal of Spanish conquerors of America, writes Aktar [AFP]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has recently come under fire for statements he made on the role of Muslims in history that have been widely construed as blatant – even clumsy – revisionism. On November 15, at a conference with Latin American politicians and scholars, Erdogan claimed that “Muslim seafarers” had discovered the Americas three centuries before Italian explorer Christopher Columbus had done…..
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