I think comparing the situation with Turks to Columbus is inaccurate.
Columbus is being attacked by anti-American subversives. His actions were instrumental in the path to the development of our country.
The Turks neve created anything, never produced anything - except rape, murder, slavery, forced conversion, plunder, devastation and human misery on a massive scale in Greece, Central Europe, the Balkans, southern Europe, the Mediterranean, northern Africa and the Levant. Entire Christian islands were depopulated by Turkish slaves like Barbarossa.
Nor have their misdeeds been confined to the past. Only a hundred years ago they extirminated their Christian Armenian
subjects in a manner so brutal and savage that describing the details here would shock more people.Their misdeeds continued throughout the 20th century with ancient Greek colonies along the Aegaean and into the very present with actions again us in
the War with Saddam and with their Kurdish
co-religionists whom they would exterminate as brutally as the Armenians if they thought they could away with it.
They are Central Asian Nomad savages who never evolved.
The Turks are not going anywhere, unless you want to have one hell of a war, killing many on both sides, including no doubt a lot of America's dearest blood, and have the ultimate beneficiary be the Russians. The Turks live in Anatolia now, and have for centuries. So YES, it is the same thing.