Editing Battle of Lepanto (section)

=== Turkish deployment ===
[[File:Lepanto f1.jpg|thumb|left|Depiction of the [[Ottoman Navy]], detail from the painting by Tommaso Dolabella (1632)]]

[[Müezzinzade Ali Pasha|Ali Pasha]], the Ottoman admiral (''[[Kapudan-i Derya]]''), supported by the corsairs [[Mehmed Siroco|Mehmed Sirocco]] (Mehmed Şuluk) of [[Alexandria]] and [[Uluç Ali Reis|Uluç Ali]], commanded an Ottoman force of 222 war galleys, 56 [[Galiot|galliots]], and some smaller vessels. The Turks had skilled and experienced crews of sailors but were significantly deficient in their elite corps of [[Janissary|janissaries]]. The number of oarsmen was about 37,000, virtually all of them slaves,<ref>Konstam (2003), pp. 20–21</ref> many of them Christians who had been captured in previous conquests and engagements.<ref name="Guilmartin 222-225" /> The Ottoman galleys were manned by 13,000 experienced sailors—generally drawn from the maritime nations of the Ottoman Empire—mainly [[Greeks]] (according to Finlay, around 5,000<ref name=":1" />), [[Berbers]], [[Syria]]ns, and [[Egyptians]]—and 25,000 soldiers from the Ottoman Empire as well as a few thousand from their North African allies.<ref name="Stevens63">[[#Stevens|Stevens (1942)]], p. 63</ref><ref name="ISBN|0-306-81544-3"/>

Ali Pasha is supposed to have told his Christian galley slaves, "If I win the battle, I promise you your liberty. If the day is yours, then God has given it to you." John of Austria, more laconically, warned his crew, "There is no paradise for cowards."<ref name="Stevens64">[[Battle of Lepanto#Stevens|Stevens (1942)]], p. 64</ref>