We have written elsewhere at length about the future of
Constantinople, but we should like to say something here about the population of that great city. For the opinion is widely held, even among those who would be glad to see the Turks dismissed from Europe, that the Turks are in a great majority, and therefore, in accordance with the fashionable doctrine of self- determination, ought to be allowed to decide their own fate. The latest figures to which we have access are those of 1912. We learn from these that the population of Constantinople, including Stambul, Pere, and Kutchuk Tchekmedje, is 841,108. Of these, 308,733 are Turks, 235,215 are Greeks, 122,730 are Armenians, 4,331 are Bulgarians, and 38,791 are Jews. There are besides 131,308 persons of other nationalities. It will thus be seen that the Turks are little more than one-third of the whole population.
