Güzelbahar Family

Starting on the left: Celil Layiktez, Pupu (Emel) Güzelbahar, Robert Güzelbahar, Dolly (Ezel) Güzelbahar. Front row: my older sister Mireille Güzelbahar My second older sister Mireille (Meri) was born in 1914. After finishing Haydarpasha Jewish highschool's junior high department, she continued in the American Constantinople College (American Girls' Highschool) and was married in the Zülfaris Synagogue to Robert Güzelbahar in 1933, she had two daughters. Ezel who we call Dolly, and Emel who we call Pupu. Both of them are graduates of the American College like their mother. Ezel (Dolly)'s husband's name is Morill Cole. He is an attorney in New York. His father David Cole has a 30-member law firm and was a legal consultant to President Nixon. We lost Ezel Dolly Cole in 2000 suddently because of breast cancer. She was so vivacious yet she died within 1-2 months. When she died she was 65 years old. She was the mother of two, one girl and one boy. Emel(Pupu) married a doctor, Paul Glicsman inNew York. Her husband died, she continues her life in New York. Currently she is the mother of three daughters. Mireille's husband Robert Güzelbahar died in New York in 1965. Mireille later married Axel Axelrad in 1968 and currently lives in New York..