An article by one of our faculty members, Dr. Umut Uzer, on the forty-year Turkish publication history of Şalom newspaper was published in the highly regarded journal ‘Journalism’.

The article called ‘The Şalom newspaper in Turkey since its 1984 language transformation from Ladino to Turkish and the Turkish Jewish community’ explores the linguistic Turkification of the dwindling Turkish Jewish community during the period of the Republic. The Şalom Newspaper which started its publishing life in 1949, notably changed its language from Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) to Turkish in 1984. The relatively recent history of this Jewish newspaper is meticulously researched and analyzed to unpack the relationship between language and identity in this article.