On 18 May 1565, an Ottoman fleet of some 200 ships carrying ... and they'd disrupted the pilgrim routes to Mecca, which was why the Turks spent more than a year readying their fleet; and Malta ...

The Ottomans first ruled in Egypt as a state of ... of the Arab tribe that historically inhabited and controlled Mecca and its Ka’aba). Since the reign of the late King Fahd bin Abdulaziz ...