Daily Brief

Saturday, October 17

In Hasakah, calls are made against hate speech; in Jazira, farmers fear fuel prices.

4:35
0:004:35

Hasakah: attack on symbols and calls for peace

0:27

Kamîran: The tension in the Khuwairan neighbourhood of Hasakah, which we mentioned yesterday, is now showing itself in a new incident. Ronahi, what happened?

Ronahî: On Tuesday, an unknown group looted the office of the Democratic Union Party in the Khuwairan neighbourhood. The attackers broke the door, damaged property, and disrespected Kurdish national symbols.

Ronahî: This is not the first incident. A few days ago in Til Temir, an attack was also carried out on an institution belonging to families of people who lost their lives in the war. So far, it is not known who is behind these attacks.

Kamîran: So it is a chain, yet the names of those who did it are still unknown.

Ronahî: Yes. Reactions also came from many places. Women from Qamishli demanded that those responsible for this disrespect be brought to trial. In Hasakah, social and cultural figures also condemned the attack and called on people to stop hate speech against the ethnic and religious communities of the region.

Ronahî: In Til Temir, the People's Initiative also held a meeting. Elders, residents, and co-chairs of communes spoke in it about social solidarity and the protection of shared life.

Kamîran: Hate speech is not only on the streets, it is also on social media, is it not?

Ronahî: Journalist and political activist Rawad Blan says that political and religious exploitation lies behind the rise in hate speech, and that this deepens divisions between communities in Syria and endangers internal peace.

Ronahî: And today also, according to sources from Hasakah, the Internal Security Forces carried out a search operation in the Nashwa neighbourhood. The sources say it took place after a person attacked a military vehicle and fled.

Jazira: fuel prices and wheat farming

2:05

Kamîran: From security, let us move to the land, because the farming season in Jazira is at the door.

Ronahî: Fields should now be ploughed, yet in many parts of Jazira work has stopped. Farmers cannot begin work, because fuel prices are high and production costs have become heavy.

Ronahî: The lack of money is also increasing, because the payment for wheat that farmers delivered is still delayed. Farmers say this puts the planting of wheat and vegetables at risk.

Kamîran: So farmers are not spending money for the new season, and they have still not received the payment for last season.

Iran shells the Shaho highlands

2:38

Ronahî: In eastern Kurdistan, according to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, the Revolutionary Guards placed heavy weapons and explosives around the village of Delemarzi in the Sawlawa district over the past two days.

Ronahî: Later, the Dashtaqalb area in the Shaho highlands, in the province of Sine, was shelled with heavy weapons.

Kamîran: We must say that this information so far comes only from one organisation; we have no statement from the Iranian side.

Syria's energy line under pressure

3:05

Kamîran: In Syria too, fuel lines have become a matter of questions.

Ronahî: In the months of September and October, seven incidents were recorded: in the countryside of Damascus, Deir ez-Zor, Hasakah, and Tartus. Some were explosions and fires that shut gas lines, and some were damage to oil pipelines and theft from the pipes.

Ronahî: One of them was damage to an oil pipeline in the Hadideh area.

Kamîran: Seven incidents in two months, across four provinces. Yet whether they were technical faults or sabotage, the report itself does not give a clear answer.

Ronahî: True, the report presents both possibilities and does not favour any side.

Students insist on Kurdish lessons

3:45

Ronahî: Reactions against the reduction of Kurdish lessons, which were also in the news yesterday, continued today with the voices of students.

Ronahî: Student Fehima Bico said: "We want to continue our studies in our own Kurdish language. After the decision to stop teaching it and to reduce its hours, we faced a major problem."

Kamîran: For the students, this is not only a matter of hours, it is a matter of the language they have studied in for years.

Earthquake in Japan

4:10

Kamîran: And the final news comes from afar.

Ronahî: According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, an earthquake measuring six point nine struck off the coast of the Kuril Islands, at twelve thirty-eight local time, at a depth of one hundred sixty kilometres.

Ronahî: The city of Hakodate felt it lightly.

Previous days