"Turkey discovers the Americas
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Wasn't it Christopher Columbus who discovered the Americas in 1492? Or was it the Chinese who now claim that they discovered the New World some 65 years before Columbus? The Ottoman Empire discovered Brazil in 1858 when they signed a Trade and Friendship Agreement with Brazil. It's now high time for Turkey to rediscover this great continent, starting with Latin America in the south. "
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