![]() ![]() While in jail, Zana wrote “ Writings from Prison”, detailing her cause and the hardships she faced fighting for the Kurdish people. She was released in 2004 due to huge international pressure. ![]() ![]() Her decision to deliver the oath in Kurdish led to a 15 year sentence of which she served 10. Leyla Zana won a seat in the Turkish Parliament in 1991, as the first Kurdish woman ever to be elected. In another speech Leyla Zana allegedly said that the PKK and its jailed leader are “as important to the Kurdish people as the brain and the soul are to a human being”. She allegedly stated that if PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan intends to solve the Kurdish issue he should use Öcalan as the interlocutor and instead of travelling to Diyarbakir he should visit him in the Island of Imrali Prison. ![]() The court claimed that Leyla Zana ( picture below), in her speeches, praised Abdullah Öcalan for his tireless work for the Kurdish causes and announced him as the Kurdish national leader. Abdullah Öcalan, writes EU Turkey Civic Commision ( EUTCC) in its press release of 9 April 2010. She is accused of supporting the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and its leader Mr. Leyla Zana has gained international acknowledgment for her tireless political work for the Kurdish people. ![]()
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