Bigla can you tell me if we have in the FORMER TURKISH COLONY OF GREECE ( FTCOG) only Turk
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Bigla can you tell me if we have in the FORMER TURKISH COLONY OF GREECE ( FTCOG) only Turkogrekus? Or we have Macedonians, Roma, Armenians, Jews, Albanians, Bulgarians, Turks, Vlachs , NO GLUPOSTI PLEASE ANSWER TO MY QUESTION BRE PRCH
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TURKS: as per the Treaty of Lausanne in the 1920's and the population transfers that followed, the Turks allowed the Patriarchate to remain in Constantinople/Istanbul. The Christian population allowed to remain in the city was countered with a matching Moslem population in Greek Thrace. Since the Turks wanted to deport the rest of their Christian population to Greece (or Bulgaria), they insisted that the departing Christians only be called Christian (and not Greek, Bulgarian, Armenian, Syrian, etc.). They didn't want Greece to make a claim for Istanbul years later. As a result of this, the Treaty also stated that the Moslem population remaining in Thrace was to be called Moslems, and not Turks.
After the pogroms of the Turkish government in 1955, when many Greek were forced to leave, the Greek population in Istanbul today stands at around 5,000 while the current Moslem population in Thrace is about 150,000. These numbers speak for themselves.
JEWS: as with most of the rest of occupied Europe, the Jews of Greece were almost completely wiped out as a result of the Nazis.
ROMAS: no European country has assimilated their Roma population with greater success that Greece has. In the RoM for example, they don't even want to be called Romas, preferring instead to be called Egyptians. Greece has had far fewer problems with its Roma population that any other country.
VLACHS: the vast majority of Vlachs (and virtually all of them from Urban centres), demand that they be called Greeks and have no wish to be recognized as a minority. Those few that left Greece in the 20th century emigrated to Romania, which attempted to attract Greek Vlachs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with limited success.
ARMENIANS: the few that came to Greece are today assimilated as Greeks.
BULGARIANS: as per the Treaty of Lausanne, virtually all Greek citizens with a Bulgarian conscience emigrated to Bulgaria in the 1920's as part of the Greece-Bulgaria-Turkey population transfers. Bulgarians in Greece today are usually guest workers.
ALBANIANS: make up about 500,000 to a million in Greece today, depending on whose numbers one believes, and are either legal or illegal immigrants, or guest workers.
VIETNAMESE: Greece took in a few thousand Vietnamese 'boat people' fleeing brutal communist oppression in the late 1970's, and today they are peaceful and productive citizens of Greece.
MACEDONIANS: are considered by Greece to be Greeks living in the province of Macedonia. Just as with Thracian, Thessalian, Cretan, Epirotan, etc., Macedonian is a regional designation and not an ethnic one. There is a 0% chance that Greece will ever accept 'Macedonian' as an ethnic desiganation that is separate from a Greek identity.
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