User blog comment:Mr.Xeight/Forum for the Federation of Greece in the Universe of 1983:Doomsday/@comment-2076280-20100822034950

So this is where all those details about Greece are hidden! So it does prove to be more interesting than it looks.

About Thrace, the total population of the area would be very small. A few hundred thousand at most. (And, for clarification, I'm assuming Greece would control both sides of the straights and claim many areas beyond the coast that isn't necessarily in its control.) During Doomsday, Istanbul, Bursa, Izmit, and Bandirma were nuked, which would kill over 10 million people and most of the total population. Most of the survivors on the Asian side of the straits would flee south, leaving the area largely depopulated. On the European side of the straights, people would fleet north, probably towards Edirne, which wouldn't have been nuked. Of the surviving population, it would be pretty much all Turkish. There were very few Greeks in Turkey pre-Doomsday, as a result of the population exchanges in the 1920s. There were only 3000 in Istanbul for instance, and they would have all died in the strikes. So whatever Greeks live there would be settled there from elsewhere in the FoG and the Turkish population would have to be held down by a military force. However, if actually Greek control was contained to the immediate coastal areas, only a minimal military force would need to be in the area because most of the refugees would have fled. If Greek control extends inland, a much larger number of troops would be needed, especially on the European side of the straits where marauding bands could still prove to be a problem.