Barbaros Monument built in honour of the Ottoman Admiral Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa is situated in Beşiktaş, where his fleet used to assemble. He was buried in the tall mausoleum near the statue, which was built by the famous architect Mimar Sinan in 1541. On the back of the statue are the verses by the Turkish poet Yahya Kemal Beyatlı:
Whence on the sea’s horizon comes that roar?
Can it be Barbarossa now returning
From Tunis or Algiers or from the Isles?
Two hundred vessels ride upon the waves,
Coming from lands the rising Crescent lights:
O blessed ships, from what seas are ye come?
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Turkish seamen salute his mausoleum with a cannon shot before leaving for naval operations.
