Engin Altan New Historical Turkish Series Barbaros Complete Biography

After Diriliş Ertuğrul, Engin
Altan is ready to become another historical Turkish personality

However, he will play the lead
role in another historical series on the Turkish channel TRT, based on the life
of Khairuddin Barbaros.

According to reports, Engin Altan
has been selected for the role of Khairuddin Barbaros’s elder brother Urooj
Raees while Yetkin Dikinciler İshak will play the role of Khairuddin.

Ulaş Tuna Astepe and Caner Topçu
will also appear as Arooj Raees and Khairuddin’s other 2 brothers.

The series is expected to coming soon.

Interestingly, the actor is known
for his passion for the sea and that is why this new historical Turkish series
is very exciting for him.

After the 5th season of Ertugrul,
Engin Altan will be appearing in this series a long time later.

Khairuddin Barbarosa of the 16th
century is an important personality in Islamic history, with whose help the
Ottoman Caliphate became the greatest power of its time on land as well as on
the seas.

The early life of Khairuddin
Barbaros

Khairuddin Barbaros was not his
real name; Rather Khizar was his real name. He was born in 1478 on the island
of Lesbos in the northeastern Aegean Sea. He was the youngest of four brothers
and began his working life on a ship he had built, doing business on various
islands.

The reason for the nickname of
Barbaros was his elder brother Baba Urooj and his red beard and they came to be
called Barbaros brothers while the Ottoman Sultan Saleem named him Khairuddin.

After the fall of Granada in 1492
and the complete conquest of Andalusia by the Christians, Baba Urooj began to
bring Muslim refugees from there to North Africa by his ships.

But in 1503, Baba was arrested
after attacking the ship of Urooj, after which he spent 2 years as a slave in
the ships of the Crusaders, but then he managed to escape.

In 1505, Spain and Portugal
launched attacks on coastal areas in North Africa.

On these attacks on Muslims, Khizar
and Urooj, under the leadership of Korkud, a son of the then Ottoman Sultan
Bayazid II, launched counter-attacks in the Western Mediterranean to disperse
Spanish and Portuguese ships.

After the coronation of the new
Ottoman Caliph Salim I in 1512, the Barbaros settled on the Tunisian island of
Djerba in North Africa and the Mediterranean, the struggle against the naval
supremacy of Spain, Genoa, and France began and gradually began to succeed.

Over the next three years, the
two brothers managed to gain prominence in North Africa, targeting Spanish and
Portuguese ships on their own.

In 1516, they invaded Algeria and
snatched it from Spain, and Baba Urooj annexed the conquered land to Salem I,
after which it became part of the Ottoman Empire.

Baba Urooj was appointed governor
of Algeria and Khizar was appointed chief naval governor in the western
Mediterranean, with the name of Khairuddin.

Baba Urooj lost his life in a war
with Spain in 1518, and the following year Spain occupied Algeria.

The Rise of Khairuddin Barbaros

After the Baba Urooj, Khizar
became known as Khairuddin Barbaros and he continued his war for which he
sought help from the Ottoman Caliphate.

In the following years, Algeria
moved from one hand to the other several times, but Khairuddin’s influence in
the region continued to grow, while Algeria was given the Ottoman Caliphate as
a central base for the Western Navy.

After Saleem I, his son Suleiman
the Magnificent became Sultan and Khairuddin Barbaros offered his services to
end the domination of European nations in the seas and he became the Amir of
the Ottoman Caliphate.

Khairuddin Barbarosa then invaded
southern Europe and seized gold-laden ships from the United States.

By this time, the Mediterranean
had become an “Ottoman lake” against which the Western powers had
jointly attacked Khairuddin Barbarosa.

In this battle of 1538, the
states of Venice, Spain, Geneva, Portugal, Malta, and Papua invaded together,
but in the Battle of Preveza, Barbarossa defeated the Christian army under
Andrea Doria, who had about 300 ships, while the Barbaros had 122 ships.

In this battle, Khairuddin
Barbaros destroyed 10 ships and captured more than 30 while not a single one of
his ships was damaged.

Victory in this war resulted in
the Ottoman Caliphate’s dominance over the Central and Eastern Mediterranean
for decades, while Barbaros was made the Ottoman Territory (Governor of
Governors) and Captain (Chief Admiral) of North Africa.

He then thwarted the invasion of
Charles V of Algeria, Spain’s most powerful king, in 1541, and conquered
Tripoli and Tunisia.

Khairuddin Berbros retired in
1545 and completed his biography in Istanbul and died on July 4, 1546, at which
the Ottoman Caliphate declared that “the leaders of the seas have
died.”

His tomb is in Istanbul, on the
European shores of the Bosphorus. Even today, no Turkish ship
passes through the grave without a salute.