Are there (m)any Orthodox ethnic Turks in Istanbul? Would a Greek native of Turkey accept the "Turkish" label?
The Patriarchate is in a very weak spot. Are there any possible successors for the current patriarch under the oppressive constraints of the government?
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" Are there (m)any Orthodox ethnic Turks in Istanbul? Would a Greek native of Turkey accept the "Turkish" label?"
So far as I know, there are no "ethnic" Turks who are Orthodox. Greeks in Turkey, however, do accept the label "Turkish".
" Are there any possible successors for the current patriarch under the oppressive constraints of the government?"
Maybe one or two.
The official position of the Turkish Republic is that all its citizens and all institutions on its soil are Turkish. Ataturk redefined "Turkishness" not as an ethnicity, but as a nationality, the way American or Canadian is a nationality. Needless to say, members of non-Turkish ethnic groups living in Turkey: Greeks, Armenians (no the Ottomans didn't kill them all), Arabs, Kurds, Azeris. . . . don't see it that way.
Still, for the purposes of this discussion ethnic Greeks still residing in Turkey count, whether they call themselves 'Turkish' or not.