Most Cretan Muslims were local Greek converts who spoke Cretan Greek, but in the island's 19th-century political context they came to be viewed by the Christian population as Turks.
A maioría dos musulmáns cretenses eran conversos locais gregos que falaban grego de Creta, pero no contexto político da illa no século XIX, chegaron a ser vistos pola poboación cristiá como turcos.