almost whole Mediterranean Sea under Turkish control ( Ottoman Empire )
Turkey
Algeria
Tunusia
Libya
Egypt
Lebanon
İsrael
Greece
Syria
Morea
Crete
Cyprus
and never forget that Ottoman Navy captured American Ships in the Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea
Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Ottoman Empire 1796
On September 5, 1795, the United States agreed to a treaty against this threat.
According to this agreement, the United States was to pay 642,000 gold coins and 12,000 Ottoman gold dollars ($21,600) per year for not touching any Ship carrying American flag in the Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea
It is the only U.S. document in its history to acknowledge the payment of taxes to a foreign state, as well as the only treaty in a foreign language in American history
great power Ottoman Empire
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what about France,İtaly,Russia ? nothing to rule Mediterranean
and keep crying your weak Greece-France can not enter Turkish EEZ for searching and drilling