January 2016
Interview with Alan Can, Kurdish Syrian refugee in Vienna, Austria
By Lionel Zivals
TPR: Hi Alan, could you tell us when, how and why did you come to Austria?
AC: Hi, Yes. I escaped from north Syria (Rojava) about one year and a half ago, because of the war, and in order to find a proper place to bring my family with me. I cross to the kurdish part of Turkey, and I worked for some months near Diyarbakir, as I didn't have the money to travel. Then, with others Syrian refugees, we took a boat from Izmir (in the mediterranean coast of Turkey) to Greece. We travelled across Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary, in order to arrive here. The situation we are living there in Syria is very bad. Now my family is not in direct danger, but I want to bring them with me.
