‘Jewish, Turkish, Israeli’
The year 1977 meant elections, a new government and, for my parents and myself, packing up to leave İzmir. This was because my father, an employee of the state broadcaster TRT, had chosen the wrong song for an entertainment program. The love song, which went with the lyrics “We shall walk hand in hand / And always forward…” had been deemed by the state as “communist propaganda.” We would be back in Ankara again.
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