Kamîran: Let us begin with today. For many people in the region this date carries special weight.

Ronahî: Yes. On the ninth of October nineteen ninety-eight Abdullah Ocalan left Damascus. Then on the fifteenth of February nineteen ninety-nine he was captured in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. The Kurdish movement calls this event an international conspiracy.

Ronahî: Today in Qamishlo, Amuda and Terbespiye people took to the streets. In Qamishlo the march began at the Soni roundabout. In Derbesiye dozens of young people also held a march and carried pictures of Ocalan.

Ronahî: The movement leadership also issued a statement. According to it, two years have passed since the process that began on the twenty-third of October twenty twenty-four, and now no obstacle remains before Ocalan’s freedom. This is the movement’s view. In the news the Turkish government’s view on this claim does not appear.

Kamîran: So the streets are remembering, and politics is at the table. Has anything been done in Ankara in the meantime?

Ronahî: The Imrali delegation of the DEM Party, that is the members of parliament Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar, met with the AKP spokesperson Omer Celik, the deputy chair Efkan Ala and the group leader Abdullah Guler. They spoke about the stage the process has reached and the steps ahead. No concrete outcomes of the meeting were made public.

Ronahî: Reactions are still coming from Hasaka. According to reports, a demonstration was held in the city last Friday.

Ronahî: In that demonstration slogans were raised that insulted Kurdish symbols and spread hatred.

Ronahî: The Democratic Council of Syria said that hate speech was used in the demonstration and that this could create problems between the components of the region. It called on the people of Hasaka to protect themselves from provocations. It also said that all the legitimate demands of the people of the province exist, but provocations must be avoided.

Kamîran: It is a warning, but it is not directed against one side only. It speaks of the rights of all components.

Ronahî: The Conference of Democratic Islam also said that those who benefit from incitement are trading on the blood of Syrians. This comes at a time when the prices of food and fuel are rising in the region and across Syria.

Ronahî: The case of education in Kurdish, which we mentioned yesterday, continued today in Tal Tamer. The PYD Youth Council read a statement in front of the party building in both Kurdish and Arabic and said that education in the Kurdish language is a fundamental right.

Kamîran: From Hasaka we move to another story from the same province: the return of displaced people.

Ronahî: The fourth group of displaced people from the camps of Ras al-Ayn and Tal Tamer set off this morning toward their villages and lands. The group includes nearly five hundred and fourteen families, in total four thousand five hundred and eighty-four people.

Ronahî: A government delegation that included the deputy commander of the Internal Security Forces, Mahmoud Khalil, accompanied them.

Kamîran: And it is not a one-way road; people are also returning from Ras al-Ayn.

Ronahî: True. Fifty families from the Khuwairan neighbourhood of Hasaka, who had been housed in homes belonging to residents of Ras al-Ayn, returned to their own homes. According to the report, in this way the houses were vacated for their original owners. Compared with the five hundred and fourteen families in today’s group, this number is small, but it shows that the return on both sides is connected.

Ronahî: Damascus officially denied reports about sending a Syrian force to Yemen, against the Houthis.

Kamîran: Yesterday there was talk of the idea of military assistance to Saudi Arabia. What does Damascus itself say today?

Ronahî: The Syrian Ministry of Information said that the authorities’ efforts are focused only on internal stability and state-building, and that there is no participation in new external wars. The presidential media adviser Ahmed Muwaffaq Zaidan also spoke on the same topic.

Kamîran: So the rejection is for Yemen. Nothing new was said about assistance to Saudi Arabia.

Kamîran: And we finish with the fields. Farmers in Jazira have fallen into difficulty.

Ronahî: Farmers in the Girke Lege district have still not received the money for their wheat from the interim government. This delay places a heavy burden on them and prevents them from preparing for the new season.

Ronahî: Fuel prices are rising, the costs of cultivating the land and buying agricultural supplies are also increasing. Farmers want the money to be paid as soon as possible.

Kamîran: In short, the wheat has been sold but the money has not arrived, and the new season is at the door.