Greeks in Turkey east. The ethnonym "Yunanlar" is exclusively used by Turks to refer to Greeks from Greece and not for the population of Turkey. In Greek, Greeks from Asia Minor are referred to as or ("Mikrasiátes" or "Anatolítes", lit. "Asia Minor-ites" and "Anatolians"), while Greeks from Pontos (Pontic Greeks) are known as ("Póntioi"). Greeks from Istanbul are known as ("Konstantinoupolítes", lit. "Constantinopolites"), most often shortened to ("Polítes", pronounced po-LEE-tes). Those who arrived during the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey are also referred to as ("Prósfyges", i. e. "Refugees"). Greeks have been living in what is now Turkey continuously since the
Ancient Greek phonology velars . Which one they became depended on dialect and phonological environment. Because of this, certain words that originally had labialized velars have different stops depending on dialect, and certain words from the same root have different stops even in the same Ancient Greek dialect. Near or , the labialized velars had already lost their labialization in the Mycenaean period. Through "psilosis" ('stripping'), from the term for lack of (see below), the was lost even at the beginnings of words. This sound change did not occur in Attic until the Koine period, but occurred in East Ionic and Lesbian Aeolic,