Sixteenth Century Turkish Influence in Western Indonesia

Abstract

The existence of diplomatic and military relations between
 Ottoman Turkey and some Muslim states of Southeast Asia has been
 known for centuries. The Portuguese chroniclers, notably Couto
 and Pinto, kept the idea alive in the West; oral traditions and a
 few chronicles kept it more vividly before the imagination of the
 Atjehnese; and in Turkey there has been a revived interest in the
 connection since at least 1873. An attempt therefore seems overdue
 to seek greater precision on these remarkable events, by considering
 at least the most notable of the sources from the three sides.