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3 unusual facts about Kurtoğlu Muslihiddin Reis


Kurtoğlu Muslihiddin Reis

In the meantime, Kurtoğlu joined the forces of Kara Mahmud and participated in the Ottoman naval expedition to Dobruja and the following land expedition to Wallachia, in July 1521.

The name Kurtoğlu means Son of Kurt (Wolf) in Turkish, a family name which Muslihiddin inherited from his father, Kurt Bey, a Turkish seaman from Anatolia who went to northwestern Africa for privateering together with the other Ottoman corsairs of that period such as the Barbarossa brothers, Aruj and Hayreddin Barbarossa.

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Kurtoğlu Muslihiddin Reis (1487 – ca. 1535), Turkish privateer and Ottoman admiral



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