What do the Jews of Turkey say about Netflix’s Club series?
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Gökçe Bahadır plays Matilda, one of the main characters of the movie.
Coming to Netflix as one of 5 episodes, and the series of clubs where people living in Istanbul Galata live, is a struggle full of designs in Turkey.
With this production, for the first time, a real reality, in their own words, became “visible” in Istanbul.
bbc turkish‘to the ground; It marks the demonstration of attention to the Wealth Tax as well as religious treatments and full body care of the Ladino language.
Liora Morhayim – PhD refectory
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Liora Morhayim – 25 years old
“When Ladino is spoken on the believing television. For the first time, a Jew from Turkey is at the center in a mainstream media.
“Moreover, I was surprised that it was not looked at from one place, it was focused on the most subtle. It also does not have a political side. It is very surprising and very planned together.
“I was never the first in the library as a Jew… Always being introduced as a “Jew from Turkey.” But of course, this is anti-Semitism, the policy of Turkification… not this period, the atmosphere in general in the country, on the other hand, is exclusionary. Even though I feel like I belong to Turkey, “I wonder if the state and Turkish citizen do you see me as a definition of Turkey, as equals?” the feeling is always there. something empowering.
“It is very exciting that this story has found wide coverage. You are also commenting on Twitter. ‘There is a Ladino language, what a beautiful song, I am listening to it… What does this word mean?’ in the making of the likes, while I’m curious and nurtured, of course it can buy me a pretty comprehensive way of belonging.”
Nesi Altaras – Avlaremoz Newspaper store
“This is the first time this is seen directly here. In other words, it is the first time on Turkish television in the example of a Jew appearing as ‘the enemy banker in the valley of the wolves’ without being caricatured. ..
source, Nesi Altaras
Nesi Altaras – 24 years old
“I mean whoever I talked to, everyone watches their family in this series. It is very important that something and it is possible to live it cheaply, everything can be lived in. There is a transition to a rosy romance. But of course it has no reality. Where are these people immigrated because of Discrimination, because of poverty They migrated. This episode is being forgotten. This series did not do it like that.
On November 11, 1942, the Wealth Tax could not be received.
1400 of whom could not be made official, who could not pay this tax, were sent to a labor camp in Erzurum Aşkale. people have left Turkey.
“It’s not a rich neighborhood here in the same world. It’s not a neighborhood that can be lived in from the middle-low class. These people are also migrating from thinking. They will see this in the TV series. This is a trauma for our society. In my family, there is both a mother-to-be and father-side, this has happened. After that, there are members of Aşkale. These are not forgettable things. They seem to be different from everyone else.
Rachel Behar
“Ay Rasel had a very young girl. She impressed a lot. Just like in the movie, she was me. Büyük Hendek Caddesi was our walking path. There was also Küçük Hendek Caddesi in the back. It was the road in the series. It was up to our models. I was at the bottom of the tower in 1945 and the 50s We used to live there as well … Ladino went away for him.
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Rachel Behar – 93 years old
“Where we had a hard time when the asset was mined. We gave it to them.
Selin Kandiyoti – columnist for Shalom Newspaper
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Selin Kandiyoti – 43 years old
It could be a song, it could be a language, it could be an accessory, it could be a decor. I cried at all of them. I was overflowing with enthusiasm, joy, positive emotions. in fact, at the same time, it is similar to the past in Turkey for the first time. First of all, I am very happy.
“My grandmother is in Galata. Every time we passed by, they would say, ‘Grandma is big in this apartment (Sea is in the apartment). Although he sold his wealth heavily, he did not pay the exorbitant tax there because… They lost wealth.
He got very emotional, so I watched the show. is happy about it. There is antisemitism in Turkey as well as in the world. I am very very happy.”
Yaşar Bildirici – Turkish Jewish Community Consultant
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Yaşar Bildirici – 65 years old
“One of my members has really won big in the Turkish Jewish Community. People from our communities played my roles, as well as my son-in-law, İlker Franko. My little grandson is also one of the children in the choir, for me, for my family and for your community. It is very enjoyable. But a Turkish person to be proud as a citizen.Turkish TV series and Turkish programs in life today have become popular in the world today.
“One of its most important assets is living in Turkey today, which consists of the dark pages of our history. It is thought that it will be there. It is also valuable to be there. We have less than 100 thousand non-Muslim communities in all of Turkey.
“The Turkish Jewish community grows up with a flag from every school with anti-love of Atatürk, mother and himself, anti-love of Turkey and us. In fact, common sense people see this very clearly. Experience with both my Turkishness and my Jewishness.
