After reading the Vitkus article, I noticed a particular part in which the Turks were referred to as Barbary Pirates. My Y-chromosome kicked in immediately after seeing the word "pirate," causing me to find this Wikipedia article on these Jack Sparrow-esque coast strikers.
The article describes the Barbary Pirates as being mainly from North Africa, attacking many coastal European villages. The focus of these attacks was the capturing of Europeans, to sell them as slaves. The numbers of those captured between the 16th and 19th century is said to have exceeded 1 million Europeans. Whoever the Pirates didn't capture, they are said to have slaughtered. Leaving many settlements uninhabited, ship-less and enslaving the survivors. Violence and kidnap are two forms of piracy that are seemingly the most devastating.
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