greeks in turkey

     

Greeks in Turkey (Turkish: Rumlar) are Greek-speaking Eastern Orthoox Christians who mostly live in Istanbul and on the two islands of the western entrance to the Dardanelles: Imbros and Tenedos (Turkish: Gökçeada and Bozcaada) and also on the Princes' Islands. They are the remnants of the estimated 200,000 Greeks who were permitted under the provisions of the Treaty of Lausanne to remain in Turkey following the 1923 population exchange, which involved the forcible resettlement of approximately 1.5 million Greeks from Anatolia and East Thrace and of half a million Turks from all of Greece except for Western Thrace. After years of persecution (e.g. the Istanbul Pogrom), in 1995, fewer than 10,000 Greeks still lived in Turkey, and the Greek Orthodox population in Istanbul, as of 2006, is estimated at just around 5,000.

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