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4.12.2012. Syria's war, which has already
sparked refugee crises just across its border in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, is
also bringing strains to Armenia, a Christian country hundreds of miles away.
Ethnic Armenians fleeing primarily from
Aleppo, Syria's commercial hub and a major battleground in its civil war, have
found an unlikely meeting point in Armenia's capital, on a dusty side street
bracketed by Soviet-era apartment blocks. Buzzing with machinery, and heavy
with the smell of motor oil, Glinkai Street houses more than a dozen metal and
auto workshops where groups of Syrian-Armenian men gather to seek jobs, drink
tea and trade the latest grim news from home.
"I'm lucky, since there's not much work
here," said a 27-year-old who gave his name as Tigran. He said he arrived
from Aleppo with his mother in September and now makes $200 a month replacing
pistons in car engines. "People who can't work have no way to block out
what they've left behind."
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