[30] These statistics about the schools are derived from Cuinet, as above cited.
[31] As to the decrease of the Turkish population of Asia Minor and its causes, see L. Heermann, Rückerinnerungen aus dem Orient (Aschaffenburg, 1886), S. 128 Anm.; R. Fitzner, Anatolien, S. 20 f.; on the increase of the Greeks: K. Humann, Verhandlgn. d. Gesellsch. f. Erdkde. zu Berlin, 7 (1880), S. 249–252; R. Fischer, Mittelmeerbilder, N. F. (Leipzig, 1907), S. 401 f.
[32] Hugo Grothe, too, in Die Asiatische Türkei und die deutschen Interessen (Der neue Orient, S. 25, 9 Heft), pleads for a closer feeling between the Germans and the Asia Minor Greeks. So, too, Blankenburg, Heft 1 of the Schriftensammlung des Deutschen Vorderasienkomitees, Die Zukunftsarbeit der deutschen Schule in der Türkei.
[33] It is to be remembered that the higher professional places in the towns of Asia Minor are filled almost exclusively by Greeks. Teachers, doctors and engineers are for the most part Greeks and therefore among the higher engineering and administrative officials of the Anatolian and the Bagdad railways there are many Greeks.
[34] The “Association d’Orient” in Athens.
[35] See, for example, E. Naumann, Vom Goldnen Horn zu den Quellen des Euphrat (1893), S. 208.
[36] For complete details and examples illustrating these relations, see D. E. Oeconomides’ above cited work, pp. vii and viii.