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Daily Sabah, Turkey
April 6 2014
SYRIANS OF ARMENIAN DESCENT ESCAPE TO TURKISH BORDER
HATAY, Turkey ' Opposition forces who gained control of Syria's Kasab
town provided 18 Syrians of Armenian descent safe passage Saturday to
a border town in Turkey's Hatay province.
Clashes between Assad regime forces and the opposition have been
ongoing for nearly two weeks around Kasab. "War broke out near our
home. The opposition brought us to a safe spot in Kasab... they
treated us very well," Anehud Arahunyan (67) told an Anadolu Agency
correspondent after arriving at YayladaÄ?ı town.
The Syrians, seven of whom were women, were greeted by YayladaÄ?ı
District Governor Turan Yılmaz, District Police Commander Akif
Kızılkaya and customs personnel after opposition forces transported
them to Kasab Border Gate. "Our country's door is open to all who are
victims... First we will host you, and then transport you to the place
you wish to go," Yılmaz told the Syrians.
The refugees, among whom were injured persons who had to be provided
with wheelchairs, were then hosted at a guesthouse for teachers.
Earlier this week, two elderly Syrian sisters of Armenian descent
settled in a neighborhood populated largely by Armenians in Hatay's
Samandag town.
Kasab, whose more than 2,000 inhabitants are mostly of Armenian
origin, is located in the northwestern province of Latakia, Syria's
main port city.
Turkey and Syria share more than 800 km of border, and YayladaÄ?ı has
repeatedly been hit by shells and rockets from the tension in Kasab.
The war between the opposition and forces loyal to embattled Syrian
President Bashar Assad has been in an uneasy stalemate since late
2013. Syria has been gripped by almost constant fighting since Assad's
regime responded to anti-government protests in March 2011 with a
violent crackdown, sparking a conflict which has spiraled into a civil
war.
The civil war, which entered its fourth year last month, has claimed
more than 140,000 lives, according to London-based Syrian Network for
Human Rights.
http://www.dailysabah.com/mideast/2014/04/06/syrians-of-armenian-descent-escape-to-turkish-border
April 6 2014
SYRIANS OF ARMENIAN DESCENT ESCAPE TO TURKISH BORDER
HATAY, Turkey ' Opposition forces who gained control of Syria's Kasab
town provided 18 Syrians of Armenian descent safe passage Saturday to
a border town in Turkey's Hatay province.
Clashes between Assad regime forces and the opposition have been
ongoing for nearly two weeks around Kasab. "War broke out near our
home. The opposition brought us to a safe spot in Kasab... they
treated us very well," Anehud Arahunyan (67) told an Anadolu Agency
correspondent after arriving at YayladaÄ?ı town.
The Syrians, seven of whom were women, were greeted by YayladaÄ?ı
District Governor Turan Yılmaz, District Police Commander Akif
Kızılkaya and customs personnel after opposition forces transported
them to Kasab Border Gate. "Our country's door is open to all who are
victims... First we will host you, and then transport you to the place
you wish to go," Yılmaz told the Syrians.
The refugees, among whom were injured persons who had to be provided
with wheelchairs, were then hosted at a guesthouse for teachers.
Earlier this week, two elderly Syrian sisters of Armenian descent
settled in a neighborhood populated largely by Armenians in Hatay's
Samandag town.
Kasab, whose more than 2,000 inhabitants are mostly of Armenian
origin, is located in the northwestern province of Latakia, Syria's
main port city.
Turkey and Syria share more than 800 km of border, and YayladaÄ?ı has
repeatedly been hit by shells and rockets from the tension in Kasab.
The war between the opposition and forces loyal to embattled Syrian
President Bashar Assad has been in an uneasy stalemate since late
2013. Syria has been gripped by almost constant fighting since Assad's
regime responded to anti-government protests in March 2011 with a
violent crackdown, sparking a conflict which has spiraled into a civil
war.
The civil war, which entered its fourth year last month, has claimed
more than 140,000 lives, according to London-based Syrian Network for
Human Rights.
http://www.dailysabah.com/mideast/2014/04/06/syrians-of-armenian-descent-escape-to-turkish-border