The Carasso family was a prominent Sephardic Jewish

Sephardi Jews

Sephardi Jews is a general term referring to the descendants of the Jews who lived in the Iberian Peninsula before their expulsion in the Spanish Inquisition. It can also refer to those who use a Sephardic style of liturgy or would otherwise define themselves in terms of the Jewish customs and...

 family in Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 Selanik

Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...

 (modern Thessaloniki, Greece). In the early 20th century, some members of the family were active in the Young Turks and others went on to found the modern yoghurt

Yoghurt

Yoghurt, yogurt or yogourt is a dairy product produced by bacterial fermentation of milk. The bacteria used to make yoghurt are known as "yoghurt cultures"...

 industry.

Emmanuel Carasso

Emmanuel Carasso

Emmanuel Carasso or Emanuel Karasu was a lawyer and a member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family of Ottoman Salonica . He was a prominent member of the Young Turks. The name is also spelled Karaso, Karassu, and Karasso...

 or Emanuel Karasu (1862–1934) was a lawyer and politician, and prominent member of the Young Turks

Young Turks

The Young Turks , from French: Les Jeunes Turcs) were a coalition of various groups favouring reformation of the administration of the Ottoman Empire. The movement was against the absolute monarchy of the Ottoman Sultan and favoured a re-installation of the short-lived Kanûn-ı Esâsî constitution...

. His name was Turkified as Emanuel Karasu 'black water'.

Isaac Carasso

Isaac Carasso

The Carasso family was a prominent Sephardic Jewish family in Ottoman Selanik...

 (1874- April 19, 1939), Emanuel's nephew, was a medical doctor who emigrated to Barcelona, where he founded the yoghurt company that became Groupe Danone

Groupe Danone

Groupe Danone is a French food-products multinational corporation based in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. It claims world leadership in fresh dairy products, marketed under the corporate name, and also in bottled water...

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Daniel Carasso

Daniel Carasso

Daniel Carasso , a member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family and the son of Isaac Carasso, founded the United States Dannon company and built up the Groupe Danone into a multinational business.-Biography:...

 (1905- May 17, 2009), Isaac's son, took over the family business in Spain and established Danone in France and the United States and built the company up to Groupe Danone

Groupe Danone

Groupe Danone is a French food-products multinational corporation based in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. It claims world leadership in fresh dairy products, marketed under the corporate name, and also in bottled water...

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Albert Karasu

Albert Karasu

Albert Karasu was a Jewish-Turkish journalist born in Ottoman Salonica.He studied political science in Switzerland, and went on to found the French-language Istanbul newspaper Le Journal d'Orient in 1918...

 (1885–1982), founder of the French-language Istanbul newspaper Le Journal d'Orient.