The population of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality was 15,519,267 at the end o

The population of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality was 15,519,267 at the end of 2019. Istanbul hosts 19% of the country’s population, with 64.4% of the residents living on the European side and 35.6% on the Asian side.

Given the deterministic interests of Turkey(Greco-Turk), Russia (European), Iran (Iranian) and Chinese(East Asian) ethinic states in maintaining extractive power structures, and containing 85IQ Tribalism (ethnic persia is lost now to arabization), it’s difficult to see pushing the Turks back across the straight, and it might require a ‘great wall’ on the european side.