Published on December 18, 2024 at 08:20. / Modified on December 18, 2024 at 08:27.
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The Cordoba Armenian restaurant, one of the best known in Aleppo, sparkles from afar. Christmas garlands light up the windows. A magnificent Christmas tree sits in the middle of the establishment. The waiters, in suits and ties, are busy around the few occupied tables. “Before, we were full every evening,” says Hraj Sulahian, the co-owner, before describing the arrival of the rebels led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Cham (HTS): “It was total panic. Nobody knew who these men were. Nor what was happening.”
Hraj Sulahian then hides all the restaurant’s alcohol reserves in the family apartment. And many of his friends and relatives are fleeing the city, the most populous in the Levant before the civil war of 2011. “They took their cars and rushed to the regions of Tartus and Latakia (pro-diet, editor’s note). They rented hotel rooms and spent money for nothing,” said Hraj Sulahian. An airlift was also organized between Syria and Yerevan to evacuate nearly 200 Armenian nationals.
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