Original sentence: Although Sokullu was Muslim, he payed homage to his Orthodox roots and persuaded the Sultan to restore the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć as a "gesture of reconciliation".Born in Ottoman Herzegovina into an Orthodox Christian family, Mehmed was recruited at an early age as part of the Ottoman devşirme system of forcibly recruiting Christian boys to be raised to serve as a janissary
Edited sentence: Although Sokullu was Muslim, he remembered his Serbian Orthodox roots and his family.Born in Ottoman Herzegovina into a Serbian Orthodox Christian family, Mehmed was recruited at an early age as part of the Ottoman devşirme system of forcibly recruiting Christian boys to be raised to serve as a janissary.He persuaded the Sultan to restore the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć as a "gesture of reconciliation"