Turkey: Erdogan's Attempt to Prove Muslims Discovered the Americas and Turkish Re-interpretation of History

Why is Turkey' President Erdogan attempting to reinterpret the history of the Americas? He wants Turks to believe that Muslims discovered the Americas in 1178.
Why is it necessary for Turks to "rediscover" themselves as having been the "creators of civilization", the ones who "invented the alphabet", or the "builders of the pyramids"?
And, is the best path for Turkey this: that its academics now teach this revisionism, or that academics gain "academic freedom"?

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