The exact origin of the word ‘gulet’ is unclear. On the French Mediterranean coast, ‘goulettes’ has been known since the 18th century. The collective term ‘gulet’ as a designation for a Turkish sailing ship of traditional design only appeared in Turkey with the forced tourism in the 1980s. In the meantime the ship type term “Gulet” includes even wooden ships built as pointed creels and mirror ketches. There are even people who refer to wooden ships built of steel and fiberglass as “gulets” if they were built in Turkish shipyards and approximate the ship design of the “gulet”.
It is also possible that the Turkish ship designation “gulet” comes from the Venetian ‘galiota’. A multitude of nautical terms has migrated to the Turkish Mediterranean coast via the Italian-Greek-Turkish sailor gibberish. So ‘galiota’ also stands for a ‘galleon’ with freighter form. And ‘galiota’ could come from ‘galea’, a term used to describe different types of ships from the 12th to the 18th century.
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