Loury, 17, and her family fled Aleppo in 2012. In Istanbul her family relies on her salary to live more comfortably. When she first arrived in Istanbul she was working in a factory that manufactures clothes with her dad. She now works in retail at clothing stores in a mall, where she is translating for Arabic and Kurdish speaking customers to Turkish. She earns about 1500 Turkish Lira a month. She taught herself Turkish and is now working on improving her English. Her brother Jan is now studying in a Turkish school.
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