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  1. The academician and Turkish folklore expert Yaşar Kalafat, in his comparative research ("Popular Beliefs Among the Macedonian Turks: Turkmens, Torbeshes, Turkbashis, Chenkeris and Yörüks", Türk Dünyası Araştırmaları Vakfı, Istanbul, 1994) on popular culture in Turkey and the Balkans, points to the many similarities between some of these communities, especially the Torbesh, and the Turks of Turkey, and comes to the conclusion that most Macedonian Muslims share the same pre-Islamic Turkish beliefs and traditionsand claims this as a proof that these communities could originally be ethnic Turkic or Turkish people who accepted Islam during the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans. (Pages 18–20)[SUP][9][/SUP]
  2. The Macedonian Muslims are largely the descendants of Orthodox Christian Slavs from the region of Macedonia who converted to Islam during the centuries when the Ottoman Empire ruled the Balkans.[SUP][citation needed][/SUP] The various Sufi orders (like the Khalwati, Rifa'isand Qadiris) all played a role in the conversion of the Macedonian and Paulician population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_Muslims
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