(EN) Kemal H. Karpat, Studies on Ottoman social and political history : selected articles and essays, Brill, 2002, p. 427, ISBN 1-4175-4552-6, OCLC 60248254. URL consultato il 22 febbraio 2022.
«He became a yamak (janissary border guard) and gained popularity among the troops at Vidin. Eventually the Belgrade yamaks forced out of that city joined Pasvanoglu too. Even the janissary corps in Istanbul was friendly to him.»