That religion of peace disovered Earth is a sphere. No, really. Really.

And Russians invented baseball. And electricity. And flew the first powered airplane. Really.

“Speaking at a reception for business leader in the Central Anatolian province of Konya late Nov. 28, Minister Fikri Işık stressed the contributions of the Islamic world to science throughout history. ‘Some 700-800 years before Galileo, 71 Muslim scientists led by al-Khwarizmi convened by the order of the Caliph Al-Ma’mun and revealed that the Earth is a sphere,’ he said. Işık added that a copy of the original document is currently in the Museum of Islamic Science and Technology in Istanbul.”

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/muslims-discovered-earth-is-round-turkeys-science-minister-says.aspx?pageID=238&nID=74989&NewsCatID=338

Link at: http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/muslims-discovered-earth-is-round-says-religion-that-believes-its-flat/

Second link at maggiesfarm.

A sphere? Well …

“What I say is based on Koranic science. He bases his arguments on the kind of science that I reject categorically – the modern science that they teach in schools. This science is a heretic innovation that has no confirmation in the Koran. No verse in the Koran indicates that the Earth is round or that it rotates. Anything that has no indication in the Koran is false.” – frontpagemag link

(Flat Earth stuff you might expect from desert goat herders, but Turks are supposed to have a bit more realization of reality. If the Turks go all goat herder and toss out Ataturk, the world will be in more trouble. Especially Greeks and Armenians and Russians and Azeris and Georgians …)