Towards an integration of Rum in the new Turkish nation in the making?

26 orphanage 25 children over six years old.The answer was negative: no space!56 56 Αλληλογραφία Κεντρικής Εφορείας 1914-1919, the Central Board to the bishop of Chalcedon Gregorios, February 17, 1918; idem, the Central Committee in favor of Indigent Rum (Κεντρική Επιτροπή υπέρ των απόρων Ρωμηών) to the Central Board, April 24/6, 1918.Marginalization of the economy, removal of the elites, uninterrupted arrivals of refugees, changes in institu tional relations with the Ottoman State: the community of Pera was seriously wounded during the decade of war that ended with the emergence of a new Turkey.In 1914, 205,000 Orthodox Greeks were settled throughout Is tanbul.The first official census of the Turkish State counted, in 1927, in the department of Istanbul, 91,902 Greek-speaking inhabitants.