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clicking on the maroon links immediately above. Thank you. Are you searching for a comfortable
crewed yacht charter sailing in Turkey? Or are you considering a similar crewed yacht charter sailing
in Greece? You and your family? Or you and a group of friends? Are you dreaming of a cruise along
Turkey's cove-indented, pine-shrouded, Turquoise Coast? Or are you dreaming of a crewed yacht charter
on an azure sea among remote Aegean islands of Greece? Perhaps you are hoping to sail to Greece from
Turkey. Or vice versa. How about letting a new ketch-rigged crewed charter yacht take you there. Here
or there, Greece or Turkey. Sailing the crossroads of history. As did Chiafer Reis and his flotillas
during the years from 1520 to 1585. Starting in Gocek. Are you searching for Gocek in Turkey? It is on
the southwest coast 42 nautical miles ENE of Rhodes Town and 15 road miles from its own international
airport at Dalaman. It was the sea between Gocek and Rhodes and between Rhodes and other Latin islands
of the Aegean that Chiafer Reis, or Djafer Reis, cruised with his first flotilla, the lead galliot with
22 oars to a side, the others with 17. Flying Ottoman colors, or on occasion his own colors, Chiafer
Reis was bent on plundering Latin shipping and Latin islands of which there were then many in the Aegean,
some until 1523 possessions of the Knights of Rhodes, some possessions of Genoa, but most possessions of
Venice taken at the time of the Fourth Crusade. Chiafer Reis was a Latin by birth, Calabrian, and how or
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why he developed his irritation with
other Latins is not recorded, but it was a time of Latin Inquisition from which not even the likes of
Copernicus and Galileo (at left) were to escape unscathed. What is recorded is Chiafer's participation
in the 1538 battle of Preveza under Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa and in the 1565 siege of Malta under Dragut,
both fierce encounters with Latins. In 1570 Chiafer Reis assisted his son-in-law Uluc Ali, also a
Calabrian, in the obliteration of a galley squadron dispatched by the Knights of Malta to aid in Venice's
failed defense of Cyprus, and shortly thereafter he was named by Ottoman Sultan Selim II beylerbey,
or governor, of Tripoli in what is now Libya. Again serving under his son-in-law at the 1571 battle of
Lepanto, Chiafer Pasha commanded a squadron of Tripolitan galleys in Uluc Ali's left wing, the only wing
of the Ottoman fleet to acquit itself well. Some chroniclers have it that he was captured by Don Juan of
Austria at that battle, but if so his ransom was quickly forthcoming as he was back on the Tripoli job
by 1574 at the latest. That year he was reconfirmed as beylerbey by the incoming Sultan Murat III.
Chiafer Pasha has the unusual distinction of having been governor of two different locales with the same
name. In 1580 Murat III named him beylerbey of Tripoli in what is now Lebanon. It is doubtful that
Chiafer ever made it to Gocek as Gocek was a backwater during the sixteenth century. It is no backwater
today, but rather is fast becoming the Antibes of Turkey. In Gocek we can put you aboard a crewed
charter sailing yacht for the holiday of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a crewed charter yacht and show
you the flat sailing waters of the Gulf of Gocek, show you wakes left by Chiafer Reis in his pursuit of
Aegean Latins, and show you the route of his transit from Tripoli, Libya, to Tripoli, Lebanon. A
comfortable new crewed yacht available for charter in Turkey or Greece. Contact Charter Yachts
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