15 young women in the Cizîrê Canton of West Kurdistan, Rojava, have joined the ranks of the YPJ (Yekîneyên Parastina Jin, Women's Defense Units) after completing one-month military training organised in the name of “Martyr Jiyan Tolhildan”. The trainees were provided with military, ideological and self-defense training based on the sense of democratic nation building and free individuality.

A military ceremony was held at the Martyr Şilan Academy in Derik to mark the graduation of the new YPJ fighters, beginning with one minute's silence for all those fallen and continued with a speech by YPJ Commander Adar Şervîn.

The YPJ Commander stressed that the YPG/YPJ forces and the Kurdish people are writing an epic of resistance and bravery with the struggle they have been mounting at the battlefield, noting that Kurdish women have reached the position to lead the revolution in Rojava.

Following speeches, the new fighters of the YPJ received their certificates and swore an oath of allegiance before joining the ranks of Women's Defense Units.