Were there a handful of Europeans doing piratey for the barbary lot or the Ottoman Navy? Why was this...

Were there a handful of Europeans doing piratey for the barbary lot or the Ottoman Navy? Why was this? Why were there so many Dutch folk of all people that converted or not? Just like.. how did they end up down there doing pirate shit?

The Ottoman population for most of its history was majority-European. They probably had a lot of European pirates.

So there was say a fair bit of Bulgarian, Serbian, Greek, Armenian etc. pirates in the area or in "employ" of the Ottoman Navy? I am sorry I am completely in the dark regarding deeper jazz about the Ottomans.

Armenians aren't European ya dip

The Jews were running the show

>Hmm this sounds real profitable
Real fucking hard to understand mang

Yes, I don't see what is so profitable about converting to Islam to hang out with hairy folk from norh Africa. A real hard one.

employed maybe, or enslaved or captured, but in the adriatic pirates habitualy fought against ottomans as well as venetians, then again they made deals with both as need arose and the price was right, so who knows

Mediterranean shipping

converting to Islam is literally saying a phrase in the presence of some other Muslims...easier than baptism

Wasn't it a dutch man who led a Barbary raid on Iceland?

>the descendants of vikings getting viking'd themselves.

Pottery.

This, George Soros was the real name of Barbarossa

Dutch people were/are the jews of Europe and who do anything for trade purposes

PIE RATS?!

Janissaries, an elite corps of units that were forced to convert to Islam at a young age after being forcefully taken from their parents. Janissaries were of Greek, Albanian, Serb and Croat spawn. As for the Dutch, well the only thing they deserve is a nuclear holocaust.

>you can join the rape, murder, plunder, burn party
>kill whoever you dont like, fuck whoever you want no matter if young or old or animal
>bonus if you are from the mediterrean, so you can repay all their mad banter
>get rich on the spoils, buy yourself some sweet castle or island or villa
>all while you get free moneyz and ships from the Sultan

Yeah, except they also had you circumcised

for non meme answer OP, it has to do with the reformation and conflict beetween the protestant and the catholics, the dutch at this time werewarring with the spaniards with their pirate merchant ship , and the ottomans was one of the states supporting them. also see pic related

>Liever Turks dan Paaps ("Rather Turkish than Papist"), also Liever Turksch dan Paus ("Rather Turkish than Pope"), was a Dutch slogan during the Dutch Revolt of the end of the 16th century. The slogan was used by the Dutch mercenary naval forces (the "Sea Beggars") in their fight against Catholic Spain.

The entire medieval was one big pirate clusterfuck at the time, the Barbaresque guys, Genuese, Genetians, turks, knights hospitaller, privateers from the British Isles and the Netherlands, Frenchies. Everybody was raiding and plundering and making slaves, and so a lot of guys ended up chained to the rowing banks of the galleys. Only way to get out is to suck up and join the gang.
Doesn't make much difference, you are a pirate, no mater the flag.

preatty intresting

Dutch and English converts brought skills to the table that the local barbary corsairs didn't have.

They were like high valued green card immigrants who typically got a good position among them from the start. In fact despite having to convert they were still allowed to drink.

> Were there a handful of Europeans doing piratey

Loads of them.

Privateers rarely ever gave a shit about identity and ethnic Turks were always notoriously bad at sailing.

Nearly the entirety of the Ottoman fleets were manned with other Muslims from the Levant and Egypt along with loads upon loads of Muslim converts from Europe, especially Greeks.

Hell, even the land army was largely ran by Muslim converts from the Balkans.

Just look the the names of the army leaders at various battles against Austria and Hungary by the late 16th-17 century, like the battle of Sisak or even later battle of Zenta.

Something something durka durka -ić

I'm imagining a pirate with a pegleg, a hook and an eyepatch trembling in fear. "WHAT? They wan' ta mutilate me knob?"

WE

>tfw no pregnant Anne Frank pirate gf to sail around the Caribbean with, robbing British and French merchant vessels and sending the loot to Charles II as tribute.