Greatest Ottoman Naval Commander

Yes, but did he actually go there? Or did he just copy from someone else?

He was an Algerian corsair (along with his brother) who ultimately became Admiral of the Ottoman Navy.  IIRC, his title was "The Drawn Sword of Islam".

He was a Turkish pirate around Algeria. He was not Algerian.

His title was H�z�r I gues it means green. It is also one of the names of prophets in Quran. Which nickname of him means "the drown sword of Islam"? First time I hear such tings.  

If you want to get technical, then he wasn't "Turkish" either--he was actually from the Island of Lesbos, and his mother was the daughter of a Greek priest.

But the point is that he was ultimately in control of Algiers by 1516, and hence he could be described as an "Algerian corsair".  Perhaps I should have referred to him simply as a "Barbary corsair" instead.

Actually, wasn't Khair ed Din his title ("the gift of God")? 

Not sure about "The Drawn Sword of Islam" bit, though...

My facts are quite straight, my friend.

The only reason Prevesa was considered a "victory" is because Doria refused to fight.  The subsequent breakup of the alliance likewise gave the Turks an advantage.  When one considers the numbers of ships in each fleet, and then compares that to the number of vessels that were actually engaged, it's pretty clear that it wasn't much of a "battle".

Also, how did I "minimize the Ottomans capaigning in Austria"?

The last time I checked, Sulleyman and his troops were checked at Vienna in 1529, and checked again in 1532.

Yes they are, my friend.

Read on...

Apparently you didn't read my post (which you quoted above) very carefully. 

You listed the total numbers of ships (which I will clarify below), but you conveniently left out how many ships were actually engaged in combat.

First, let's clarify the forces involved.

Different sources give different figures for this battle (as shown by the discrepancies in your numbers and mine).  In the new Cassel's Galleons and Galleys, written by the leading authority on Mediterranean naval warfare, John F. Guilmartin, Jr., the figures are as follows:

Allied Christian Fleet--  130 galleys and "a fleet of supporting sailing ships".

Ottoman Turkish Fleet-- 90 galleys and 50 galliots (light galleys).

Jan Glete, author of Warfare at Sea 1500-1650, echoes Guilmartin and gives figures of 130 Christian galleys vs. 90 Ottoman galleys, but makes no mention of the Christian sailing vessels or the Turkish galliots.

Lord Kinross, in The Ottoman Centuries, gave a total of 200 ships for the Allied Christian fleet (including 50 sailing vessels), but no figures for Barbarossa. 

Sir Charles Oman, in his classic History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century, states that the Allied Christian fleet has some 200 vessels total, but, like Kinross, he gives no figures for Barbarossa's force.

Ernle Bradford, in his Knights of the Order, list the Allied Christian fleet as being composed of 81 Venetian vessels (galleys & sailing ships), 30 Spanish galleys, and a small number of vessels from the Papacy and the Knights of St John.  No figures are given for the Ottomans.

In any case, it's clear that both fleets were large.  I never disputed this.

What I do have a problem with, however, is when the action off Prevesa is so commonly (and casually) described as a "battle", despite the fact that only a very small number of vessels on each side was actually engaged in combat.

And the naval and military historians are in agreement.

Guilmartin:  "Tactically, the battle of Prevesa was little more than a skirmish.  The Christians lost a handful of galleys and round ships.  The most notable episode was the resistance of a Venetian galleon."

Oman:  "To the surprise and disgust of his captains, more especially of the Venetians, Doria refused to accept the challenge, and held off when the Turks advanced against him.  Only some trivial fighting ensued, in which the Christians lost 7 galleys.  As they had some 200 in line, the affair can hardly be called a battle."

Kinross:  "Barbarossa continued his worrying tactics... capturing two galleys and five sailing vessels, and losing no ships of his own."

Bradford:  "...Barbarossa succeeded in capturing two Venetian galleys, one papal galley, and five Spanish sailing ships."

Now, let's give the respective fleet totals and losses, from the various sources.

Oman: 200 Christian ships total.  Only 7 lost.

Kinross:  200 Christian ships total.  Only 7 lost.

Bradford:  110+ Christian ships total.  Only 8 lost.

Given the figures above, Doria lost only 3.5% of his force.

And all sources agree that Barbarossa lost no ships at all, which is almost unheard of in galley warfare--this is yet another factor which indicates that there wasn't a great number of ships engaged at Prevesa, and that it was thus not much of a "battle" in the first place.