Tag #125512 - Interview #97881 (Lina Franko)

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I first heard about the 1986 Neve Salom massacre [28] from my daughter. My daughter’s facehad gone deathly pale when she came home. I thought something had happened to her father. I felt very sad when I heard the news. We were invited to a wedding the following day.  They couldn’t postpone the wedding [it’s bad luck to postpone a wedding in the Sephardi tradition], so this wedding which started with such a dreadful event continued in the same way and ended in divorce.

I heard the news of the 2003 bombings [29] from my son. My son went to the Sisli Synagogue [30] immediately because some of our relatives were at the scene of the explosion. He called me and informed about the Neve Salom bombing immediately which had taken place simultaneously.
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Karaköy/İstanbul
Türkiye

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Lina Franko