File 3579/1916 'Turkey: the future of Constantinople' [‎42r] (92/530)

than before, under the conditions of modern warfare.
V.'hat' arc the factors we now have to doal with ? V*c arc
discussing today what ought to be the fate of the territories
of the 'Turk in nuropo, of Constantinople and the area around it,
fhc population of Turkey in nurope at the beginning of
war was under t\ o millions. I fancy, from such informat
ion as X have been enabled to procure, that it is not much
more than a million and a half now. Contrast with this the
population of Turkey in Asia. Take Asia Minor. I am giving
the pro-Year figures. i;o doubt they are much reduced by the
sufferings duo to the war. The population of ...sia Minor was
10 millions, of Armenia and kurdistan two and a half millions,
of Mesopotamia two millions, of byria throe and a half millions,
of Arabia one million. If we add together the whole of the
last-named groups which are going to be taken from Turkey in
any case, and which amount to nine millions, we leave in
Asia Minor a population of ten millions for the Turk as
compared with the lose than two millions that are still
under his rule in Muropc,
MR, EiLROUR: By "Turks* 1 you mean Turkish subjects; you
do not exclude Greeks V
THE GHiilPlhill: I am including everybody for the moment,
The exact proportions of the Greeks, Turks, Armenians, and so
on, in the whole area it is difficult to determine, When we
come to Gonstantinoplo it is easier to determine the exact
proportions*, Constantinople at the beginning of the v/a.r was
believed to have two millions of people. At the present moment
I expect it has decidedly less than three quarters of a mi^liom
However, the actual total is immaterial. The proportions are
important. Prom a comparison of the various tables of statistics
that I have been able to refer to, I fancy that the following
is about the truth, and it is very material in helping us to
arrive at a decision. Out of every hundred people in Constan
tinople approximately forty are Turks* twenty are Greeks, nine
teen are Armenians, fourteen are Jev/s and other foreigners, and
the balance is made up by a floating residuum Thus you see,