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OTTOMAN CORSAIRS IN THE WESTERN ... - Bilkent University

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS<br />

First of all, I would like to thank my supervisor Prof. Halil İnalcık for his support<br />

and guidance in the last three years. His constant enthusiasm and intimate attention in<br />

my studies became the basic motive behind the appearance of this thesis. Without his<br />

guidance, I would never be able to complete this humble piece.<br />

Moreover, I would like to thank to Oktay Özel, Eugenia Kermeli, Evgeni<br />

Radushev, Stanford Shaw, İlber Ortaylı and Paul Latimer for their attention, Giampiero<br />

Bellingeri and Vera Costantini for their support in Venice, staff of Archivio di Stato di<br />

Venezia and Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana for facilitating my research, Ali Yaycıoğlu<br />

for his comments and Hakan Kırımlı for his tempting a small number of students<br />

including me to become historians 4 years ago.<br />

No less gratitude deserves my family who had supported me during my entire<br />

life. Among my colleagues, I would like to express my greatest sympathy towards<br />

Nahide Işık Demirakın whose insightful and invaluable remarks as well as her patience<br />

had been very decisive. I feel more obliged to indicate my appreciation for the<br />

contributions of Polat Safi. Cenk Erkan and Melis Süzer also had been loyal friends and<br />

fervent supporters of my choice of an academic career since from the very beginning, so<br />

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