Koyama, would you please also post sources for these references? I'm not at all trying to deny their authenticity but a video game picture and two illustrations that looks quite different is hardly very convincing pictorial evidence.
Thank you.
For BashiBazouk Set:
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loginhttp://www.totalwar-turkiye.com/twforum/index.php?topic=73166.msg772418#msg772418This is where i get some reference to find template of bashibazouks
To be honest turban,tunic,şalvar and çarık were the main things to dress if you were an ottoman citizen therefore i didn't dig too much to find more and more reference pictures to convince you.
Here is another one:
Source:http://cezmyurtsever-filistin.blogspot.com/2010/10/ingiliz-suleymanin-kanal-harekatinda.html
Bashibazouks were leaderless , unorganised , undisciplined , poorly equipped troops.
Some of them even failed to buy a sword therefore charging with just a shield and bare hand.
Do you ever heard the term of "Ottoman Slap" ? Those soldiers trained themselves by slapping marble blocks , they went to war with calloused hands to explode eardrum of their enemy when they slap ! Those guys were wearing whatever they find.They had no salary from Padişah their only salary was their loot on battlefield.Ottoman Empire used these fucked up minded troops to win battles without casualties of trained and well equipped soldiers.Once those crazy guys attack and kill a few , enemies start to think "Wtf those guys kill us with barehands and no armor, i can't imagine what will happen if the whole army attacks ! Sound the retreat lads ! We are going home !!!"Their job was to terrorize the enemy and that's all.The Deli Khazaghand is an Akinci armor which is kinda mounted bashibazouk.They were even wearing wings (Like Hussars but it's more like crow wings) they were wearing skins and all weird things to scare the enemy .
I can't be bothered to find english references to prove those tbh.If you are interested in you should dig in ;)
If you want some info about what are those i may give you some links:
Çarık/Rawhide Shoes =
http://www.osmanlicarik.com/en/index.phpMost of the people that live in southeast anatolia still wear Şalvar(The pant on BashiBazouk Tunic)
Search for : Angus McBride btw he's the illustrator of most of those pics out there ;)