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Turkey or Greece? Could you be thinking of charter sailing under the stars of a clear night lit by a
Turkish crescent moon? Focused too on charter sailing from one isolated pine-encased blue water cove
in Turkey to the next isolated pine-encased blue water cove in Turkey? Or are you focused on swimming
in an azure sea under the pale blue skies of Greece? On charter sailing among sugar-cube encrusted
Greek islands of the mid-Aegean? Or all of the above? How about charter sailing both Turkey and Greece
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accommodations for twelve. A crewed charter yacht like Sevket Kaptan, now Kaptan Sevket, a gulet
which actually sails. How about chartering this crewed sailing yacht to cruise the Gulf of Bodrum.
Known in Greece as the Gulf of Kos. Known in antiquity as the Ceramic Gulf. A gulf with a good
afternoon breeze. A gulf with flat water. Sometimes both. Or how about chartering this crewed sailing
gulet to cruise Cleopatra's honeymoon route along the Turkish coasts of ancient Lycia and Caria and
among Greek Dodecanese islands. While you honeymoon. Or while you have a family holiday aboard a crewed
sailing yacht doing all of this. Perhaps an extended-family holiday. One not just with brothers and
sisters but with cousins, too. Or would you prefer to have a group of friends holiday with you aboard a
charter yacht proceeding leisurely from intriguing locale in Turkey to intriguing locale in Greece?
Perhaps a charter sailing yacht cruising the Cyclades of mid-Aegean Greece. Or a charter sailing gulet
to cruise further along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Starting in Bodrum. Sailing to Gocek. Or to
Antalya. Or further. Sailing the crossroads of history at the cradle of civilization. Are you familiar
with the saga of Sidi Ali Reis? The poet and author? Born in 1498 in Istanbul's Galata district, Sidi Ali
was the son and grandson of Ottoman seamen and at a young age went to work in the naval shipyard on the
Golden Horn. Later, according to his memoirs, he was one of Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa's sea captains and
was at the 1538 Battle of Preveza when Barbarossa outwitted Genoa's Andrea Doria. He was also with Turgut
Reis (Dragut) when in 1551 Tripoli was taken from the Knights of Malta. In 1554 he was appointed to
command of an Ottoman flotilla then at Basra (yes, the Basra in Iraq) and directed to show the Ottoman
flag in the Indian Ocean. He did, but in doing so encountered a storm of no mean proportions which
destroyed all fifteen of his vessels on the Indian coast. Trapped there in the fashion of Xenophon's
Anabasis, he began a long overland trek home through the maharajah and warlord ruled states of
central Asia and Persia, frequently rescuing his crew from hostile sovereigns by declaiming poetically.
Upon his return to Constantinople he presented to his sultan an account of his anabasis
entitled Mirat ul Memalik (The Mirror of Countries) available from your favorite