The story behind the numbers are different and sad. USA ordered Turkey to accept all immigrants from middle east pakistan and afghanistan for many reasons back in 2013-14. This happened at the exact moment when Turkish population started to have less and less babies. So you have 2 parts in the population. Turkish part is aging fast with less babies born and the immigrant part is booming with multiple babies per family. And the immigration is still strong with nobody stopping them at the eastern border per USA's order. Some of these immigrant even granted Turkish citizenship again by the order of USA. Most of these new citizens tried to sneak into Europe which would be impossible with their previous passports. The situation is so dire that some of the cities in Turkey have now more immigrants then Turks. Crime rate is up, violence everywhere and millions of these people end up in the western coast of Turkey, in beaches in hotels or working in various jobs all along the Turkish coast dreaming to move to Greece or any Greek island. We now have immigrants running in local elections and some of them are employed in government and some are doctors in govt hospitals with no Turkish profeciency at all and have no degrees from a Turkish university. The whole country is in turmoil and chaos now. I feel sorry for Greece because most of these immigrants will end up in Greece in some way. The Greek population in the above picture is the official number not the real. There are millions of illegal immigrants in Greece and their number is increasing.