Syrian-Armenian Schoolteacher Talin Vartanian: “I want to stay in Armenia but I must find work=?UTF-8?B?4oCd?=

09:29, July 3, 2012

Talin Vartanian is a Syrian-Armenian school teacher who arrived in Armenian two weeks ago with the hope of finding work and staying on due to the troubles now wracking Syria.

For the past seven years, Talin has taught biology at the Karen Jeppe Armenian High School in Aleppo. The school, with an enrolment of some 1,200, is named after the Danish missionary and social worker Karen Jeppe who assisted Ottoman Armenian refugees and survivors of the Armenian Genocide.

Before arriving, Talin filed for dual citizenship at the Armenian Consulate in Aleppo. "I filed out of a sense of national belonging. I want to be a citizen of Armenia," she says, adding that she hopes to receive her citizenship paper in about two months.  Read more... (1201 words)

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