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The Greeks of Turkey are referred to in Turkish as Rumlar, meaning "Romans".This derives from the self-designation Ῥωμαῖος (Rhomaîos, pronounced ro-ME-os) or Ρωμιός (Rhomiós, pronounced ro-mee-OS or rom-YOS) used by Byzantine Greeks, who were the continuation of the Roman Empire in the east.
An official Ottoman document giving the results of the 1914 population census.The total population (sum of all millets) was 20,975,345, of which 1,792,206 were Greeks.. By the end of 1922, the vast majority of native Pontian Greeks had already fled Turkey due to the genocide against them (1914–1922), and the Ionian Greek Ottoman citizens had also fled due to the defeat of the Greek army in ...
Ottoman Greeks (Greek: Ρωμιοί, romanized: Romioi; Turkish: Osmanlı Rumları) were ethnic Greeks who lived in the Ottoman Empire (1299–1922), much of which is in modern Turkey. Ottoman Greeks were Greek Orthodox Christians who belonged to the Rum Millet ( Millet-i Rum ).
On the other hand, it fuelled nationalist agitation and fervor in both Greece and Turkey, and further deteriorated Greek-Turkish relations. [21] Those expelled found refuge mainly in Greece. In 1965 the "Society of the Greeks expelled from Turkey" was founded in Athens by prominent members of their diaspora. [17]
The pogrom greatly accelerated emigration of ethnic Greeks from Turkey, in particular the Greeks of Istanbul. The Greek population of Turkey declined from 119,822 in 1927, [13] to about 7,000 in 1978. [14] In Istanbul alone, the Greek-speaking population decreased from 65,108 to 49,081 between 1955 and 1960. [13]
Greece and Turkey both fight in the Korean War on the side of the UN forces. [212] 1952: 18 February: Greece and Turkey officially become members of NATO. [213] 1953: 28 February: The Balkan Pact between Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia is enacted. [214] 1955: 6–7 September: The Istanbul pogrom, in which the Greek population of Istanbul were ...
The Cappadocian Greeks (Greek: Έλληνες Καππαδόκες; Turkish: Kapadokyalı Rumlar), [3] or simply Cappadocians, are an ethnic Greek community native to the geographical region of Cappadocia in central-eastern Anatolia; [4] [5] roughly the Nevşehir and Kayseri provinces and their surroundings in modern-day Turkey.
The Pontic Greeks (Pontic: Ρωμαίοι, Ρωμιοί; [a] Turkish: Pontus Rumları or Karadeniz Rumları; Greek: Πόντιοι, Ελληνοπόντιοι [b] [c]), also Pontian Greeks or simply Pontians, are an ethnically Greek [19] [20] group indigenous to the region of Pontus, in northeastern Anatolia (modern-day Turkey).