Ronahî: Human Rights Watch has prepared a report on the situation of women in Syria. According to the report, the transitional government last August did not allow the Women's Protection Units, or YPJ, to join the army with their own separate identity.

Ronahî: Human Rights Watch views this decision as limiting women's participation in military and security institutions. The organisation has also linked this to restrictions on women's admission to most defence academy programmes.

Kamîran: So the organisation sees this as a broader issue, not just the YPJ question.

Ronahî: In short, yes. But it must be said that among the sources we have at hand there is no response from the transitional government to this report; so far there is only the organisation's assessment.

Kamîran: From women and the army we move to the classroom. The issue of Kurdish lessons, which we also discussed yesterday, continues today with new voices.

Ronahî: The Ministry of Education of the Syrian transitional government decided to limit education in Kurdish to only three lessons per week. Kurdish students and their families say education in the mother tongue is a fundamental right and must be unlimited.

Ronahî: Today writers and intellectuals from Dêrik also joined the reactions. They called for the Kurdish language to be officially recognised in the Syrian constitution and said language is the fortress of identity, not merely a tool of communication.

Ronahî: Writer Melevan Resûl said Syria is going through a transitional process and a democratic, pluralistic model must be built. According to him, nations are built primarily on the basis of education, justice and institution building.

Kamîran: Because of this, the discussion is no longer only about the number of lessons. It has reached the question of whether language has a place in the constitution or not.

Ronahî: In the Waşûkanî camp in the countryside of Hesekê, displaced people from Serêkaniyê, the countryside of Girê Spî and Zirgan live. Sources give different numbers: one speaks of more than two thousand people, another of more than two thousand families.

Ronahî: With winter approaching, humanitarian aid is low, fuel is not available, and living conditions inside the tents are becoming difficult. Because of this the displaced want to return to their homes.

Kamîran: In contrast, some families have returned to Efrîn. What is the situation there?

Ronahî: According to reports, nearly ten thousand families have returned to Efrîn so far. Kemal Xoce, who is thirty four years old, returned to Efrîn from Qamişlo on the ninth of May in the fourth convoy with one thousand two hundred families. He says unemployment is very widespread in the city.

Ronahî: According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in Kiswe in the countryside of Damascus, the body of a woman with bullet wounds was found in her home. No further information about the incident has been disclosed.

Ronahî: In the countryside east of Dêrazor, in the town of Xiranîc, one person lost their life from a gunshot wound following a dispute.

Ronahî: According to the same observatory, four hundred twenty murder crimes have been recorded since the beginning of this year. In them three hundred sixty three men, sixty four women and thirty eight children lost their lives.

Kamîran: That is nearly three hundred fifty killings, in less than ten months. Nearly thirty eight children are among them.

Kamîran: Now we move to the border with Iran.

Ronahî: The command of the East Kurdistan Protection Units, YRK, announced that in recent days Iranian forces have once again attacked its forces. YRK said it will exercise its right to legitimate defence against any attack on its people and forces.

Ronahî: This claim comes only from the YRK side. The statement did not specify the locations or numbers of the attacks, and no response has been reported from the Iranian side.