It is inhabited by members of the Greek minority.

Since 1924, the status of the Greek minority in Turkey has been ambiguous.

The inhabitants were almost all from the local tatar-speaking Greek minority.

It has a population of 56,720 (2010 estimate) containing a large Greek minority, and an area of 1,137 km2.

-strong Greek minority before the attack to about 7,000 by 1978.

The Greek minority continues to encounter problems relating to education and property rights.

The second option was to exchange them with a community of the Greek minority in Albania.

The two sides also disagreed on the size of the ethnic Greek minority.

Greece says the ethnic Greek minority totals 400,000, in a total population of 3.3 Million.

This is not the first attack against the Greek minority.