How many Syrians chose Europe as a destination after the war that occurred in the country? How many of them sought to obtain European citizenship or asylum to qualify for it? The numbers and stories vary about that, so let us at “Sputnik” tell a completely opposite success story.
Jacques Oglu .. whose family traces its origins to Diyarbakir, where his grandfather’s father owned a copper mine, which is considered one of the most important capital of the city, before he was killed and his property confiscated, he says.Jack tells the story to “Sputnik”: After his father was killed, my grandfather and his mother abandoned the Syrian city of Aleppo, where he married the daughter of the Greek consul at that time, immigrated with her to Greece and resided in Athens for 7 years. My uncle went to Damascus and opened a restaurant serving cooked sheep in the Salhiya area, and their restaurant became very famous at that time. ”
He continues: My uncle met a very well-known Iranian partner in Lebanon and decided to set up a workshop for decoration on glass, and they attracted professional girls who graduated with fine arts, and experiments and artistic work began to accumulate in their workshop located in the Medhat Pasha market.
He continues: “I traveled to Canada and Indonesia and worked in trade … and at the age of 23 I returned to Syria, where my uncle was very ill, and by virtue of that I spoke English, French and Indonesian, I received my uncle’s work after my qualification to market the artisanal glass product and I received the facility’s management and became professional with it and understood all its secrets until I I made a small furnace for glass and put it in my house to wake up in the morning and practice my profession and my lover, drawing, decorating, coloring glass, imitating old drawings and antika pieces. ”
Ihsanoglu says: The demand for the product was very high in many countries, chief among them the Gulf countries and Europe, most of the bourgeois class, and the embassies in Syria used to deal with me and buy gifts from me for several purposes, including use, including showing off my pieces, but the conditions of war, some family crises, and even the problem of nationality and residency was a stumbling block. On my way, I stopped working after my facilities were completely destroyed and their contents stolen, in return for that I have a friend from school days who owns a hotel in Old Damascus, so I decided not to stay at home and surrender and continue working and I opened the hotel in 2013, and I have been running it since that date and was able to establish a painting workshop on Glass in 2015, and in the same year, I acquired the Syrian nationality, by presidential decree.
source : Sputnik