... "noble Turk," ignored the fact that all the best "Turkish" soldiers were Slavs, originally Christians, renegades of old, unable to speak a word of Turkish; preserving their Bosniac family-names, and without one drop of Turkish blood in their veins. Sulayman Pashs army was about as "Turkish" as are the Poles ... — The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton