Muslims in Altınözü was reported in 2005. The events were allegedly sparked by sexual harassment of a Christian girl by a Muslim barber's apprentice. Americas Important communities of Greek Catholic Melkites live in South America, mostly in Brazil and Argentina. The Eparhy of Nossa Senhora do Paraiso em São Paulo has a total membership of 443,000 people recorded in Brazil; and the Apostolic Exarchate of Argentina, 310,700. Venezuela has 26,600 people recorded and Mexico 4,700. In North America Catholic Melkites total 60,000, and the membership of the Greek Orthodox is about 500,000 people. The homeland of the Greek Orthodox is mostly Syria where it has the highest population of Christians and Lebanon. But like the Catholic Melkites, the largest population live in the Americas. The Antiochian Greek Orthodox population of Latin America is about 2.5 million people, while the Antiochian Greek Orthodox population of North America is about 450,000. Oceania The Catholic Melkite community exist in Australia, with 53,700 members. In Australia and New Zealand the Greek Orthodox Melkites number about 43,500—or according to the Prime Minister's estimate in 2007–123,000 members. Europe In Europe, there are about 40,000 people. Genetics and ethnicity The designation "Greek" refers to the use of Koine Greek in liturgy, not to ethnicity; most Antiochian Greek Christians identify themselves as native to the Arabic-speaking Levant region. According to Greek historian Pavlos Karolidis writing in 1908, they are a mixture of ancient Greek settlers and particularly Macedonians, Roman-era Greeks, and Byzantine Greeks ("Rûm"), as well as indigenous Levantines. Karolidis was attempting to refute the Russian claims that they were of Aramaic origin. They were included as Greeks in an ethnographic study published by French historian and ethnographer Alexander Synvet in 1878. A genetic study focused on the Maronites of Lebanon revealed no noticeable or significant genetic differentiation between the Greek Orthodox Christians, Maronites, Greek Catholic Christians, Sunni Muslims, Shiite Muslims, and Druze of the region. But Ruffié and Taleb (1965) found significant differences of blood markers between ethno-religious groups, particularly the Greek Orthodox in Lebanon, based on a substantially larger sample of Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholic individuals within a broader research project—but their research ignored other related 'Melkite-Antiochian' Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholic communities in Syria, Southeastern Turkey and Northern Israel. A study by Makhoul et al. (2010) on Beta Thalassemia Heterogeneity in Lebanon found out that the thalassemia mutations in Lebanese Christians are similar to