Have traveled extensively Turkey and studied the Crusaders, Arab and Ottoman history. The Ottoman empire did not control Southeast Turkey until mid to late 1300's. Templars in book/movie leave Holyland in 1291, when the Mamelukes besiege Acre. They shipwreck in what is now southern Turkey. The area at this time was nominally under the controlled of the Seljuk Turks. The Small Castle and church, Fonsalis, they find is located in a valley, in the shadow of a volcano. The nearest Volcanoes are located hundreds of miles from the coast on the Anatolian Plateau or on the Kulas Field. Did the Author even read any history of the region and look at geography?
Review of The Last Templar
