Kamîran: Yesterday we spoke about the sixth convoy that was due to set off on Wednesday. Today another picture emerges: reaching the city is not enough.

Ronahî: Displaced people from Serêkaniyê began returning after seven years, in the month of August. The first convoy returned on the tenth of August, the second on the eighth of September, the third on the fifth of October, the fourth on the eighth of October, and the fifth on the thirteenth of October.

Ronahî: According to the committee overseeing the return, some of these people were unable to enter their villages. Turkish forces blocked their way. It is also reported that these forces seized the homes of the displaced people, in the city and in its surrounding areas.

Kamîran: So the convoys arrive, yet some of them remain at the entrance to their own village.

Ronahî: Yes. In response, a step has been taken. Mahmûd Xelîl, deputy commander for security affairs of the Internal Security Forces in the province of Hesekê, met with representatives of the residents of eleven villages around Serêkaniyê. A committee representing these eleven villages was formed.

Ronahî: According to them, the security problems in those villages arise from the presence of Turkish military bases in the area. It must be said that this information comes from one side only. There is no response from the Turkish side in the sources.

Kamîran: Now let us turn to Yemen, where there is serious news.

Ronahî: According to four sources within the Yemeni government, the Houthis attacked a training camp of government forces in the province of Şebwe. The sources said the attack was carried out with three ballistic missiles while the soldiers were conducting their morning training.

Ronahî: In this attack at least eighteen people lost their life.

Kamîran: These figures also all come from the government side.

Ronahî: That is correct. All these figures and details come from government sources. The Houthis have said nothing about the attack. The phrase 'at least' also indicates that the number may not yet be final.

Ronahî: The Syrian parliament discussed Law number forty-one of the year two thousand and four in its first session of the new term. This law restricts the purchase and sale of property and houses in border areas.

Kamîran: In border areas. This means that Kurds are largely affected.

Ronahî: That is indeed the case. Parliamentarians said that this law and the amendments later made to it have hindered the sale and registration of houses in areas where the majority of residents are Kurds. Hesekê, Kobanî and Efrîn are among these areas. They called for the law to be repealed in full, together with all its amendments.

Ronahî: But so far only discussion has taken place. There is no vote or decision in the sources.

Kamîran: From Syria we turn to Iran. Today there are three developments, all related to Kurdish issues.

Ronahî: First: the YRK issued a statement on the Merîwan attack. According to the statement, on the eighteenth of October the area was first bombed with two kamikaze drones, then with more than thirty mortars and heavy weapons. The YRK attributes the attack to the Revolutionary Guard. There is no statement from the Iranian side.

Ronahî: Second: according to a human-rights organisation, Saro Sadiqzade, a seventeen-year-old child from Baneyê, was detained when Iranian forces raided their home. It is reported that the detention took place without a formal court warrant and that the child was taken to the security centre in Sine.

Kamîran: Without a court order, and a child. Has the Muradî case we mentioned yesterday moved forward?

Ronahî: Today Kongra Star issued a statement on it. They say that the death sentence against the Kurdish activist Werîşe Muradî has been reinstated. According to the organisation, the struggle to stop this decision and to raise women’s voices is a historic responsibility.

Ronahî: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that in the Ferdos neighbourhood of Aleppo, an artillery shell left over from the war exploded and three people were injured.

Ronahî: The yearly figures are higher. According to the same centre, since the beginning of two thousand and twenty-six, one hundred and fifty-three men, ninety-nine children and twelve women have lost their life because of war remnants. In total this amounts to two hundred and sixty-four people. The number of injured is four hundred and seventeen.

Kamîran: Out of every three people who lost their life, almost one is a child. The war may have ended, yet these remnants continue to kill.

Kamîran: We close with France. The clashes we mentioned yesterday have today led to a new measure.

Ronahî: The office of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced a curfew in Lille and four other northern cities because of acts of vandalism. Douai and Wattigny are among these cities.

Ronahî: In Lille the curfew begins today at six in the evening according to GMT and continues until Tuesday at four in the morning. It is a two-day curfew in total.