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| My names Abdullah and I come from Aleppo. |
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| On the 23rd of September 2015 I left Syria for Turkey. |
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| The situation of my family was really bad and it still is, it gets worse by the day. |
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| I had to leave Syria because if you are a young man there, everyone wants to recruit you, either Assads army or the Free Syrian Army or even ISIS. |
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| I dont want to fight for any of them, theyre all murderers. |
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| I hate their system and how the government treats our people, they take advantage of everything. |
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| And no one is fighting to free the people, they are just killing them. |
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| Im not going to say to you that one side is better than the other, no. |
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| All of them are murderers. |
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| People are asking why people are fleeing Syria. |
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| Its impossible for a human being to live in Syria anymore. |
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| You cannot walk in the streets because you will get a bullet in the head, or a bomb will fall on you, or chemical weapons will choke you to death. |
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| Theres no water, no electricity, no jobs, no future. |
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| Nothing. |
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| I was studying at the university but I couldnt complete my studies because of the military services that were chasing me. |
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| I had also to work as my father was very sick, he was disabled and I come from a very big family: I have 6 sisters and 3 brothers and all of them have children of their own. |
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| So, I decided to leave on my own. |
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| I stayed in Turkey for five months and crossed to Greece on the 20th of March 2016, I arrived on the island of Chios and stayed there for five days. |
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| Then, I went up north, to the border, where I stayed at the infamous gas station. |
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| There, I got to work for medical teams as a translator, first on a voluntary basis and then with a wage. |
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| I used to work as a tourist guide when I was 15 back at home, so I speak English with ease and that helped a lot. |
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| Back in Syria I was studying economics and finance, Im very much into it but I was also working, for instance as a carpenter. |
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| I left my country with no particular destination in my mind. |
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| I just wanted a safe country to live. |
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| And Im not going to lie to you, Turkey might be safe but has a lot of political problems and as refugees we have absolutely no rights, so its impossible to settle there. |
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| And now Im finally relocating to Spain, I feel really excited, I can hardly wait. |
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| I have so many friends there, in Valencia, in Barcelona, in Bilbao, in Madrid and Ive met them all here in Greece. |
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| Im going to start a new life, Im going to continue with my studies, doing my own projects, fulfilling my dreams. |
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| And I would like to bring my mother along. |
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| I dont want to lose her, too, without seeing her again. |
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| My father died on the same day I arrived on the island of Chios. |