Khaneh has been knitting socks since she was twenty. She learnt the skill from her mother and neighbors. Neither she or her mother have ever sold the socks - they always gifted them.
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.
Boris Mourazi, who heads the Coalition, says that the soldiers have told residents of the Aragatsotn village of 18 families that they need an entry permit to get to the site of the pump close to the border.
The school in the Yezidi-populated village of Tlik, in Armenia’s Aragatsotn Province, is a real antiquity.
It was so cold that even the village dogs couldn’t be bothered to leave their warm crevices and bark at me, an unknown visitor.