Are you suggesting I'm not telling the truth? I must admit, I thought this was basic historic knowledge and I'm disappointed if it isn't, because that clearly shows how the Turks like view it as they have lived their for the last 5000 years or something, but fact is that It was Greek (also Mycenean) from about 2000 B.C. until 13-14th century, but still had a rather large Greek population. And It's very logic with the Kaliphate's tolerant policies towards Christians and Jews, that these fracton stayed alive for many years. And it is also logic that the inhabitants in the cities, who were tolerated and in contact with their religious figures in Europe, stayed Christian.
But after 1920 it happened in the Mid East as every other place on Earth, people from the country moved into the cities to get work. And the peasants or whatsoever i Mid East, was the Moslems, who were majority of the population very early, but not in the cities until this point.