D-Marin Turgutreis The Blue Point Beach Club

This guide to the beach club at Turgutreis marina traces the name behind the town: the corsair admiral born on this coast around 1485, known to Europeans as Dragut. It follows his rise as a gunner and privateer under Barbarossa, and the four years he spent shackled to an oar as a galley slave after his rival, the Genoese admiral Andrea Doria, captured him off Corsica in 1540. Barbarossa finally ransomed him in 1544 for a fortune in gold ducats.