Controversy Over Ethnic Origins
The ethnic origins of Sokullu Mehmed Pasha have been the longstanding subject of dispute between the Bosniak and Serb ethnic groups which both claim his legacy. In line with this, the issue has frequently been imbued with extended ethnopolitic connotations in the region. Without any conclusive research produced to date the only certain perception one can assume is that Sokullu Mehmed Pasha was born as an Eastern Orthodox Christian in Bosnia and converted to Islam; a land where adherents of the Catholic, Orthodox and native Bosnian church had co-existed for centuries prior to the Ottoman conquest.
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