Greeks in Turkey

discriminatory tax levied by Turkey on her non-Muslim citizens in 1942

seminary

ethnic group

thumb|Vallahades in Vrostiani, 1923 The Vallahades () or Valaades () are a Greek-speaking Muslim population who lived along the river Haliacmon in southwest Greek Macedonia, in and around Anaselitsa (modern Neapoli) and Grevena. They numbered about 17,000 in the early 20th century. They are a frequently referred-to community of late-Ottoman Empire converts to Islam, because, like the Cretan Muslims, and unlike most other communities of Greek Muslims, the Vallahades retained many aspects of their Greek culture and continued to speak Greek for both private and public purposes. Most other Greek c

Turkish citizens of Greek ethnicity or origin

historical building in Büyükada, Adalar, Istanbul

Greeks from Asia Minor