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Turkish journalist
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Male
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Birth:
1885(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Death:
1982(Istanbul, Turkey)
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Biography
Albert Karasu or Carasso (1885–1982) was a Jewish-Turkish journalist born in Ottoman Salonica.
He studied political science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and went on to found the French-language Istanbul newspaper Le Journal d'Orient in 1918. In 1922–23 he covered the Lausanne Treaty negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The newspaper was closed down in 1971.