Anjel, Ester, Suzi and Sami Sharhon at walk in the Taksim gardens

This photo was taken in 1951 inside the Taksim gardens.  My brother-in-law, Alber Sarhon, was the one who took the photo. In this photo, you can see my sister-in-law, Anjel Sarhon on the left; then beside her, my mother-in-law, Ester Sarhon, myself and my baby son Sami Sarhon, who was 9 months old at the time.  That year, my brother-in-law, who lived in Avignon, France, came on a visit.  That was when I met him for the first time.  We went on an outing on that day and then came home.

My elder son, Sami, finished his secondary school at "Tarhan Koleji" [a private Turkish school] in 1967.  He then went to Israel to study lycée there.  It was fashionable those days; everyone was sending their kids to Israel to study.  Sami also wanted to go, so we sent him and he left with a few of his friends.  He went to study electronics there.  He studied for one year but he was not happy because they taught him not electronics but carpentry.  So after a year, he came back.  He finished the lycée at Tarhan Koleji.  Then later, he was able to get into university and he studied economics at the Iktisadi Ticari Ilimler Akademisi [Economics Akademy in Osmanbey].