Did more Christians come in Constantinople with the Muslim Conquest?

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A claim by a Muslim student in one of my classes is as follows. More Christians migrated to Constantinople after its conquest by the Turks than there were Christians there beforehand and they were treated with great respect by the Muslims.

I don’t believe it but my research has not extended far enough to refute the claim. Can someone point me to research of this topic?

The answer is yes, more Christians migrated to Constantinople after the conquest. Why? Because the city had fallen and was controlled by the Turk, like all the surrounding lands. During the preceding centuries, during which there was a stranglehold on the capital, the Christians for obivious reasons went to safer grounds (e.g. Russia) or stayed put behind the battlefront. After the battle was lost, there was no longer any reason not to gravitate to New Rome.

The Turk settled a number of Christians in the capital to build up the decimated population. The Sultan also imported an Armenian patriarch in addition to the EP. Why? Divide and rule. As for as honored, well, the Christians lost a succession of Churches, which became mosques (Hagia Sophia isn’t the only one).