Istanbul - Changing Demographics

[mcgillianaire]

In the 1930s when the population of this most cosmopolitan of cities used to be between 700-800,000 about 300,000 was made up of Greeks. There was also a significant number of Armenians and Jews. But today there are no more than 20,000 Jews; 50,000 Armenians and less than 3,000 Greeks out of a population between 13 and 16 million. By any measure that is a shockingly disappointing transformation. I'd still love to visit it though.

Comments

[mcgillianaire.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Suppose that's a fair enough reason. Though my years of experiencing some of what you've described there in India should stand me in good stead!

[brinker.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd be curious how it relates to India. I suspect similar in many ways.

Which reminds me that I need to go send my passport off to get an Indian visa tomorrow... No specific plans for traveling there yet, but I will, so would rather have the visa out of the way.