Muhyiddin Kermo al Cebeli –Abu Tariq tells us about how they left everything behind due to the bombardment and plunder in Syria and came to Turkey.
ORSAM: Could you tell us about yourself?
Muhyiddin Kermo al Cebeli –Abu Tariq: I am from Muarra Rif district of Idlib Province, Syria. I have 2 children. I brought along my wife, daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren, and came to Hatay. People and our lands were damaged due to the random bombardments and plunders in our district. There was no end of the torture people were exposed to. Therefore, I had to leave everything behind and come here.
ORSAM: Could you tell us about what you went through during the civil war?
Muhyiddin Kermo al Cebeli –Abu Tariq: My nephew was killed during the explosion in the dormitory where university students stayed in Aleppo on 15 January 2013. He was a senior student in the Department of Agricultural Engineering. I heard it through someone I knew from Aleppo on the telephone. There was an annual exam in the Faculty of Engineering at University of Aleppo on that very day. As Aleppo is located in a central position, the exam was organized at the University where the army seized the area. All students from the neighboring provinces and districts came to stay in the dormitory of the University the night before the exam day. After a certain hour, all the inner and external doors of the dormitory were locked. Nobody knows the exact number of students who stayed at the dormitory at that night, but the faculty members inside know it. When students as well as the supervisors and observers from abroad Aleppo were in the dorm, an aircraft dropped barrel bombs on the building where both students and some officials stayed in. At the end of the bombardment, hundreds of people were killed and hundreds of others were injured. It is alleged that it was a pogrom. The future Agricultural Engineers, Civil Engineers and Architects were all killed.
* This interview was made by Feyyat Özyazar in Reyhanlı district of Hatay on 15 January 2013.
