Sarukhan Bey
Sarukhan Bey (c. 1300–1346) was the Turkmen founder of the Saruhanid principality centered on Manisa. A former emir under the Seljuk sultans, he campaigned against Byzantine lands and in 1313 seized Thyatira and then Manisa.
In 1336 he allied with Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos and supported him at the sieges of Mytilene and Phocaea, but in 1341 his fleet was repulsed while raiding toward Constantinople. He died in 1345 or 1346, soon after his eldest son Suleyman died of illness in 1345.