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Number of Greeks Remaining

This article seems to contradict that on Greeks in Turkey (which references it). That page gives the number of Greeks remaining in Istanbul as 3,000 and the total number in Turkey as 20,000. This page gives the total number in Turkey as 5,000. Which is correct?

I have no idea... There are many different sources on the net about this... as far as i know, the number of the Greeks in Istanbul is between 2,500-5,000 now. the figure of 20,000 probably includes the Greeks on Imbros and Tenedos (but they are too few now...), so, maybe some Antiochian Greeks are also included... Hectorian 17:53, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It excludes Muslim Greeks(mainly living around Trabzon) estimated about 200,000.

The number of people in Turkey around 1984 having Greek as their mother tongue was listed as 48,000 by this source: Heinz Kloss & Grant McConnel, Linguistic composition of the nations of the world, vol,5, Europe and USSR, Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 1984, ISBN 2-7637-7044-4. --Lambiam 11:14, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Exchange rates

So how much was 69.5 million lira in 1955 in USD, GBP, or some other well-known reference currency? The Turkish central bank's historical exchange rates series only goes back to 1996. cab 10:04, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not Constantinople! ISTANBUL

I`ll erase all marks mentioning that the former name of Istanbul is Constatinople since it is not related. This article is not about Istanbul. Only the setting is in Istanbul. Thelorien 18:58, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Constantinople was used in the article when referring to the capital of the Byzantine Empire and the early 1920s, i.e. before the name was officially changed. That is perfectly legitimate in my mind. To claim, for example, that "Istanbul was the capital of the Byzantine Empire" would be an anachronism.--Damac 11:26, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Greeks would oppose strongly if Turkish Wikipedians want to use "Selanik" rather than "Thessaloniki" in the "Ottoman Empire related" part of the article of the city. Therefore, I'm erasing this Constantinople thing. By the way, I prepared an infobox but I don't know if people feel good about it. -- Deliogul (talk) 20:32, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Greeks may be offended, but that's not the point. The fact is that the reference to Constantinople referred specifically to the capital of the Byzantine empire. It would be anachronistic to refer to Istanbul as the capital of the Byzantine Empire. True, Selanik was the name of Thessaloniki, but before it was Selanik, it was Thessaloniki. The same cannot be said for Istanbul.---- Damac (talk) 22:07, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't get the difference between the cases of Selanik and Istanbul. I mean, before Istanbul was named as Constantinople, it was Byzantium. Then let's write Byzantium instead of Istanbul?! Deliogul (talk) 21:53, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Istanbul name is applied because of Sakarya War, before ottoman archives were mostly using "Konstantiniye" as the name of city not Istanbul, which has a funny meaning in greek(to the city)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:44, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Arabs

Screw them.