Now, only 10 thousand Armenians are left in Syria, Aleppo Armenian Vasken Mesrobian, who has just returned from Syria, stated at Monday’s press conference in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan.
In his words, the Syrian conflict will not be resolved soon.
“If we [i.e. Syrian Armenians] fled Syria and came to our historical homeland [i.e. Armenia], we need to have a good attitude toward it,” Mesrobian noted. “Thank God that we have been able to come here and live in peace here.”
He stated that the Armenian government is helping with what it can.
“I consider the remaining Armenians in Syria [to be] true heroes,” Vasken Mesrobian added.
Around 60 to 70 thousand Armenians lived in Syria before the start of the civil war in the country. More than half of these Armenians resided in Aleppo, the largest city in Syria, and the rest lived in capital city Damascus and several other towns.
