Tag #127650 - Interview #97523 (Suzi Sarhon)

Then I remember this policy of “Citizen, speak Turkish”.  We actually needed to speak Turkish.  [14] They used to call us “Jews”.  For example, when we walked in the streets, they used to say: “Don’t speak in ‘the jewish language’, speak Turkish”. [The word for Ladino in Turkish was for long years “yahudice”, meaning “language of the Jews”].  Then, when we studied the primary school in Turkish, we were able to speak in Turkish after that.