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My great grandfather from my mothers side was an army officer during the Ottoman rule. He was deployed in many parts of the empire(Caucasian front, Gallipoli, Middle Eastern front) during the great war, he was also deployed in the Balkans during the First Balkan War. Before working as an officer he was a Circassian immigrant who was exiled from his homeland and by chance found a job in the army.

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In the late 1970s my great grand father had lent a large amount of cash to his son, my grandfather so he could start up a pharmacy. When he found out that he had used it up on a car, he went into a complete rage and chased my grandfather around the village with a rifle screaming "I'm gonna kill him, I'm gonna kill him". My mother remembers it as one of the most traumatic events of her life but overtime it just came to be something they laughed about. The village was in Pazar, east of Rize where a large Laz speaking community lived. My great grand father was fluent but didn't really pass it on to his descendants, because most Laz people preferred to assimilate into the Turkish population in those days.

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This is a very short but sweet instance that happened in 1937. My great grandmother lived in Adana back then and she was a middle school student. It was a time when Atatürk visited Adana that he visited my great grandmother's classroom. He was observing the class and he caressed my great grandmother's head. Yes, that's it. It's not exactly a story, but it makes me joyful.

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I can't think of anything rn I'm so sorry.

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When my grandfather took a big dog to house to make a surprise but my grandmother thought it was a bear and fainted. (She thought like that because they were living in a forest)

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My dad was born in Kahramanmaraş and he lived there until he was 6. It is told that my grandmother's relatives immigrated from Balkans. Then, they moved to Istanbul. My mother was born in Eskişehir and she lived there until university. She later on moved to Istanbul to live with her eldest sister.

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I will ask my parents.

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My grandmother and grandfather were born in İzmir. They met in İzmir. They go from İzmir to İstanbul for the my father's university. Then my father go from İstanbul to Bursa, and he met my mother. My mother was born in Bursa.

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My grandmother and grandad from my dads side are coming from the same village. My grandmother is dad is the reason my grandfather could continue school. They met when my grandmother's dad took my grandad in their house so he can go to school easily.

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My mother's greatfather fought in the Korean War. He was there for 2-3 months and even he missed the birth of his daughter. He was in the artillery unit and earned a medal from the U.S. generals because of his succesfull contributions.

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Our Family had been living on the mountains in Kayseri until my uncles and my father decided to move to Istanbul.

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When my grand mothers granddad’s family returned from Bulgaria, they were accommodated in Kayseri However, Kayseri was too cold, dry and uncivilized, so they weren’t really happy living there. Later some time a family friend came to Kayseri and said that Eskişehir was more civilised and better in terms of weather. That family friend, influenced younger generation of my family at that time and they insisted to my grand mothers granddad to move to Eskişehir. However, he was afraid to move somewhere he didn’t know and he mocked the younger generation by saying “We will move to Eskişehir when red snow falls. Hold and behold that year red snow really fall to Kayseri and they had to move to Eskişehir.

Red snow, or blood snow, is a phenomenon caused by Chlamydomonas nivalis, a species of green algae containing a secondary red carotenoid pigment (astaxanthin) in addition to chlorophyll.

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My grandmother says that when my father was 2-3 months old, he started trembling his head for some reason. My father kept doing that for days, so they decided to take him to a doctor. Of course they don't have a real doctor in the village, so they took him to the dede (in the meaning of a religious figure) in the village. Dede gave my grandmother a rock or something like that and told her to place it to the river and go back to house, without looking at her back. After that, the trembling in my father's head was gone. (I personally don't believe this)

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When my mother was young, when she learned that her last name had changed when she was going to get married, she always prayed that I would marry someone with the same surname as me. 15 years later, she meets my father and both of them's surname remain as Aydın.

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My mother's greatfather used to dress up like a villager and go from Kütahya to Ankara to inform Atatürk regarding the situations in and the condition of Kütahya. He was normally a public officer and he helped with the War of Independence.

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My great grandfather was born during a wartime. Almost every men in my mother's family were send to fight but none of them survived. So the women of my family moved to a cave after a home invasion. At that time my  great grandfather, who is my mother's grandfather, was not even 2 years old. Later on after many years he established a small village and continued his life.

My father's mother was the daughter of the chief, still they were really poor. Before she married my grandfather, there was a man who wanted to marry her. However, she was in love with my grandfather so she chased the guy with a roller. And then they got married. When she was 80 years old, she went to school once again.

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My great grandmother and great grandfather immigrated to Turkey from Romania and Albania respectively. They met in Edirne and they fell in love. They ran away together to Adana, Cukurova , for working, without their family knowing. Then they moved to Eskisehir. It is where my grandmother was born.

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Born places:
My father was born in Gaziantep,
my mother was born in Turkmenistan, and I was born in Russia.

But we live in İstanbul.

Also my grand-grand father was a man ran away from Poland due to the German army attacking.

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My grandfather was born in Nevşehir as the son of an artisan. Although his mother wanted him to go to university and become educated, his father wanted him to stop going to school and just continue to help him with his job. However, my grandfather wanted to go to college and continue studying. Therefore, he was secretly studying at nights with a flashlight in his hand. In fact, he tried to stay awake every nights because there were insects at nights that were eating flesh. After studying like this for 11 years, he went to college to study medicine.

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My grandmother's mother was born in Elazığ into an ambassdor's family. Her father was appointed to Istanbul after his duty in Mosul. Just before his move, his wife died of pneumonia. Within that year, he met a Greek lady during his duty and quit the military as members of the army could not marry a non-Muslim. He left my grandmother's mother to be raised by her grandmother who was actually a poet in Elazığ.

My father's side on the other hand is from Greece. They moved back to Turkey during the exchange between Turkey and Greece. They moved into a village in Sakarya before they finally moved back to Istanbul.

It's quite strange that they all have blond hair and blue eyes unlike my brother and I.