Barbarossa on February 14, 2025A son was born to Yakup, a converted Muslim Sipahi, and his Greek wife in the late 15th century in the village of Palaiokipos on Lesbos. This bicultural child, named Khizr, grew up with three brothers in a modest household. Yakup, once part of the Ottoman conquest of Lesbos, later sustained his family as a […]