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TURKEY HOSTS ELDERLY SYRIAN ARMENIAN PAIR FLEEING WAR
Anadolu Agency, Turkey
April 3 2014
03 April 2014 17:20 (Last updated 03 April 2014 17:21)
Two old Syrian Armenians saved from civil war settle in Hatay province.
HATAY
Two old Syrian Armenians fleeing to Turkey amid escalating tension
in a village in the coastal province of Latakia have settled in Hatay.
Two Armenian sisters Sirpuhi Titizyan, 80, and Satenik, 82, were
saved from their houses in Kassab by Syrian opposition fighters and
settled in a neighborhood populated largely by Armenians in Hatay's
Samandag town.
Sirpuhi Titizyan told Anadolu Agency that she had no kin in Syria
other than her sister Satenik and her married daughter in Aleppo, with
whom she had lost contact following the escalation of the conflict
in the village.
She said: "We could not walk out of the house, we were hardly walking.
We could not understand what was going on outside. We used to make
shopping once or more in a month for the kitchen. We were out of food
when the conflicts started, but we could not walk out.
"One morning, some 10 people entered into our home who we later
learned were Syrian opposition fighters. We were very scared at first,
but they asked if we need anything and brought something for us to
eat. They were very kind to us."
She said she and her sister asked the opposition fighters to bring
them to Latakia, but they declined due to the level of insecurity on
the roads, so they then asked to be taken to Turkey.
Cem Capar, the Armenian community leader of the Vakıflı neighborhood
where the sisters have settled, pointed to the sufferings of the
Armenian people in the Syrian war.
"We raised our voices over Sunni massacres. We wished for an urgent
end to this war. Also, we did the same regarding Alawite massacres.
Now Armenians are suffering, they empty their houses. We wish for
the war to come to a stop and these people to find peace," Capar said.
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/rss/309468--turkey-hosts-elderly-syrian-armenian-pair-fleeing-war
From: A. Papazian
Anadolu Agency, Turkey
April 3 2014
03 April 2014 17:20 (Last updated 03 April 2014 17:21)
Two old Syrian Armenians saved from civil war settle in Hatay province.
HATAY
Two old Syrian Armenians fleeing to Turkey amid escalating tension
in a village in the coastal province of Latakia have settled in Hatay.
Two Armenian sisters Sirpuhi Titizyan, 80, and Satenik, 82, were
saved from their houses in Kassab by Syrian opposition fighters and
settled in a neighborhood populated largely by Armenians in Hatay's
Samandag town.
Sirpuhi Titizyan told Anadolu Agency that she had no kin in Syria
other than her sister Satenik and her married daughter in Aleppo, with
whom she had lost contact following the escalation of the conflict
in the village.
She said: "We could not walk out of the house, we were hardly walking.
We could not understand what was going on outside. We used to make
shopping once or more in a month for the kitchen. We were out of food
when the conflicts started, but we could not walk out.
"One morning, some 10 people entered into our home who we later
learned were Syrian opposition fighters. We were very scared at first,
but they asked if we need anything and brought something for us to
eat. They were very kind to us."
She said she and her sister asked the opposition fighters to bring
them to Latakia, but they declined due to the level of insecurity on
the roads, so they then asked to be taken to Turkey.
Cem Capar, the Armenian community leader of the Vakıflı neighborhood
where the sisters have settled, pointed to the sufferings of the
Armenian people in the Syrian war.
"We raised our voices over Sunni massacres. We wished for an urgent
end to this war. Also, we did the same regarding Alawite massacres.
Now Armenians are suffering, they empty their houses. We wish for
the war to come to a stop and these people to find peace," Capar said.
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/rss/309468--turkey-hosts-elderly-syrian-armenian-pair-fleeing-war
From: A. Papazian