In addition to being a unique cartographer and master of marine sciences, Piri Reis is a captain who has left traces in the Ottoman naval history. Piri Reis was born around 1465-1470 in Gallipoli, which was a famous naval base of the Ottomans at that time. When he reached the age of ten, he started to participate in the expeditions of his uncle Kemal Reis, who was a famous pirate who was famous all over the Mediterranean at the time, and later entered the government service. Tuesday.

Piri and his uncle Kemal Reis were pirates in the Mediterranean for many years. in 1486, after Granada asked for help from the Ottoman Empire, between 1487 and 1493, Piri and his uncle transported Granadian Muslims from Spain to North Africa by ship Dec. in 1499-1502, he was the Ottoman ship commander in the struggle for naval control that the Ottoman Navy tried to provide against the Venetian Navy. Piri Reis recorded the places he saw during his voyages in the Mediterranean and the events he experienced as a draft of his book, which would later become the first guide book of world shipping under the name Kitab-ı Bahriye.

After the death of his uncle in 1511, Piri Reis did not sail the high seas for a while and settled in Gallipoli. Here, he first drew the first world map, dated 1513. The one-third part covering the Atlantic Ocean, the Iberian Peninsula, the west of Africa and the east coast of the new world of America is the part of this map that is available. What makes this map important on a world scale is that it contains information from Christopher Columbus's map of the Americas, which has still not been found.

Piri Reis presented his map to the sultan in 1517 during the Egyptian expedition of Yavuz Sultan Selim.

According to some historians, the Ottoman sultan looked at the world map and said, 'How small the world is...' he must have said. And then he cut the map in half and said, 'we're going to keep the east side..' he must have said.. The sultan discarded the other half, which would later be found in 1929. It is even claimed by some sources that the Sultan wants to use the eastern half, which has not been found today, for a possible expedition to seize control of the Indian Ocean and its Spice route...

Piri Reis returned to Gallipoli after the expedition in order to make a book for the Navy from the notes he kept. He brought together the maritime notes he compiled in Kitab-ı Bahriye, a Maritime Book (Navigation Manual).

The period of Suleyman the Magnificent was a period of great conquests. Piri also joined the Ottoman Navy during the Rhodes expedition in 1523. when he gained the appreciation and support of grand vizier Pergeli Ibrahim Pasha, whom he guided on the course of Egypt in 1524, he presented his Kitab-ı Bahriye, which he revised in 1526, to Kanuni. The life of Piri Reis until 1526 can be traced from Kitab-ı Bahriye. Piri Reis also drew the second world map in 1528. The map of North America that we have today is part of this map.

In the following years, Piri Reis, who worked for the state in southern waters, came of age during this period, having served as an Indian Captain, on naval missions in the Sea of Oman, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.

Piri Reis' last duty in the Ottoman navy was the Egyptian Captaincy, which ended with painful events. the last stop of his second expedition in 1552 was in Basra, where he was imprisoned because he left the fleet in need of repairs and rest and returned to Egypt with three ships loaded with booty. He was accused of defect in service and executed in 1554 due to leaving the navy in Basra, not giving the governor of Basra Kubat Pasha the tribute he wanted from the booty, and the political ambition of the Egyptian Beylerbeyi Mehmet Pasha. However, He is still alive today with his universal works that he created, two world maps and the Book of the Navy, which is considered one of the first important works of modern seafaring...
The estate of Piri Reis, who was over 80 years old when he died, was confiscated by the state.

Cartography in the real sense of the Ottoman Turks begins with Piri Reis. This is an excellent exit, unlike a novice, crawling image. Piri Reis's book Kitab-ı Bahriye has been hailed by the world as the most important maritime work created by a Turk. The perfection of the hitting and projection system in the drawings of the world map and the North American map arouses great admiration and amazement all over the world.