title: Albert Karasu
text: # Albert Karasu
  
  Albert Karasu or Carasso (1885–1982) was a Jewish-Turkish journalist born in Ottoman Salonica.
  
  ## Biography
  
  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.
  
  