AHC: Arab/Turkish Confederates

Create a group called Arab Confederates or Turkish Confederates, whatever way possible.

POD must be after 1750 and said group must live in North America.

EDIT: They can live in Arabia or Turkey, but if so they must have their origins in the American South.
 
A group of Southern soldiers from the Mexican American war go to Europe to act as military advisors for the Ottoman sultans. Although they don't convert, they do absorb a lot of the cosmopolitan culture of Turkish life, and eventually, upon returning to the United States in the mid-1860s, form a social society and cultural dissemination group called "The Turkish Confederates". Suddenly, hookah lounges and Turkish coffee shops can be found across the South as these military-political elites start a Turk-mania, if you will.
 
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