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Around the same time, the Ottoman privateer brothers Oruç and Hayreddin—both known to Europeans as
Barbarossa, or "Red Beard"—were operating successfully off Tunisia under the Hafsids. In 1516, Oruç
moved his base of operations to Algiers and asked for the protection of the Ottoman Empire in 1517, but
was killed in 1518 during his invasion of the Kingdom of Tlemcen. Hayreddin succeeded him as military
commander of Algiers.[17]
Occupation of Algiers