Edited sentence: At one point, Muslims also took control of the Greek island of Crete.During the 17th century the Turkish population grew rapidly.It has been stated that an aunt of the Prophet Mohammad, Um Haram, had accompanied the expedition.Later, during the Ottoman rule, most of the Turks settled in Cyprus from 1571 till 1878.The Ottoman Empire gave timars--land grants--to soldiers under the condition that they and their families would stay there permanently