{"id":5714,"date":"2014-11-16T16:10:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T14:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=5714"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:09:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:09:04","slug":"president-erdogan-says-muslims-discovered-america-before-columbus-5714","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/president-erdogan-says-muslims-discovered-america-before-columbus-5714\/","title":{"rendered":"President Erdogan says: Muslims discovered America before Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that Muslims had discovered the Americas three centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus.<\/h1>\n

Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus set foot there.<\/p>\n

He made the claim during a conference of Latin American Muslim leaders in Istanbul, pointing to a diary entry in which Columbus mentioned a mosque on a hill in Cuba.<\/p>\n

“Muslim sailors arrived in America from 1178. Columbus mentioned the existence of a mosque on a hill on the Cuban coast. I would like to talk about it to my Cuban brothers. A mosque would go perfectly on the hill today.<\/p>\n

Most history books say that Columbus set foot on the American continent in 1492, while seeking a new maritime route to India.<\/p>\n

Some Muslim scholars have recently suggested a prior Muslim presence in the Americas, although no pre-Columbus ruin of an Islamic structure has ever been found.<\/p>\n

In a controversial article published in 1996, historian Youssef Mroueh refers to a diary entry from Columbus that mentions a mosque in Cuba.<\/p>\n

However, the passage is widely understood to be a metaphorical reference to the shape of the landscape.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that Muslims had discovered the Americas three centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7867,1,8064,7877,7,7873,7872],"tags":[8057,8024,7875,7883],"class_list":["post-5714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkey","category-general","category-latin-america","category-politics","category-tourism","category-travel","category-vacation","tag-america","tag-cuba","tag-istanbul","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8419,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions\/8419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}