We have written about the Yezidi-populated village of Tlik, a stone’s throw from Armenia’s border with Turkey, on several occasions.
School teachers we spoke to aren’t optimistic about the village’s future. They say that more residents will leave unless the authorities pay more attention to Tlik and other border communities.
Even the village school must purchase its water. A red pail full of water sits on a ping-pong table placed in the hall. The pupils tell me that they do not plan to leave Tlik, even if there’s no water supply.
I only saw a smattering of people when I visited the Yezidi village of Hako in Armenia’s Aragatzotn Province.Koubar’s tonir hut
Shesho, who has run afoul of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq, was accompanied by writer and researcher Hoshang Broka, a Yazidi from Syria, and representatives of the Yazidi community in Iraq.
Gyavas, the Yezidi woman seen here,is busy preparing everything the family will need to spend the next three months in the mountains of Geghard with their grazing livestock.
A corridor with an earthen floor and walls in need of whitewash leads to the teacher's common room. The bare stone transmits the cold.
On a cold winter's day four years ago, the Khatoyans went to the town cemetery in Stepanavan to bury their fourth child, who had died, as had the previous three, of starvation...
When Aziz Tamoyan sits behind his desk in the cramped and dilapidated room that serves as his office in the Armenian capital he says that he does so as President of the Republic's largest ethnic minority, the Yezidi. He also says that he is President of the Yezidi worldwide even if few outside of Armenia appear to have heard of him.