Kemal Reis

Kemal Reis, the Ottoman admiral of Bayezid II's reign ¹.

Al-Salabi records that Bayezid — answering the Andalusian Muslims' appeal under his compact with the Mamluk sultan — sent a fleet to the Spanish coasts under Kemal Reis, who "struck fear and terror into the Christian fleets in the late fifteenth century" ¹.

The book adds that Ottoman corsair volunteers, who had long preyed on Christian coasts, entered the service of the rising Ottoman navy, and the state turned its new sea power toward the western Mediterranean ¹.