A case study of identity formation among pomaks in bulgaria, greece and turkey
Crossing the mountains from Plovdiv to Drama, he writes about the communities he encounters:
 
“ And when we had covered a distance of seven miles in those
same mountains and along very arduous paths, we passed through the
village called Pashmakli. It is populated by Turks only, but they do not
speak their language. Their dialect is, rather, distorted Slavonic mixed
with Greek and Bulgarian’’ (Tsvetkova, 1963).