[1] In the Ottoman Empire, the Islamic faith was the official religion, with Muslims holding different rights from non-Muslims.
[2] In South Slavic languages, there are also derivative terms, which are seen as more offensive towards Bosniaks, such as poturiti, poturčiti and poturica (all essentially meaning "Turk" or "to turkify").
[6] According to the religious ideology of Christoslavism, coined by Michael Sells, religion played a key role in maintaining alliances and ethnic identification during tumultuous ethnic conflicts in Southeastern Europe for centuries, from the High Middle Ages onward.
Slavic Muslims were, therefore, not regarded part of their ethnic kinship since by conversion to Islam, "they have become Turks".
[9] All of those terms are now considered pejorative ethnic slurs in their respective languages as well as by those groups that they refer to.