Fun Fact: many turkish (not all of course) people in turkey belive that the statue of liberty was first made for the ottomans, but was reject by the sultan due to it depicting a non veiled woman. So it is said that the france just gave it to US when the sultan didn't want it as a gift after America gifted them the eiffal tower.

This is what I was taught as a child. Turkey has a lot of these weirds beliefs, it partially comes from the fact that its such a homogenous society, that also doesn't speak English. So its closed off to the western world.

A lot of turks belive that native Americans were turks.