She has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several times.
Zana received the Rafto Prize in 1994 and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1995. While in jail, Zana published Writings from Prison detailing her cause and the hardship she faced fighting for the Kurdish people. She was sentenced to 15 years in prison but was released in 2004 due to international pressure. This was the first time Kurdish had been spoken in the Turkish Parliament. Her decision to give the Parliamentary Oath in Kurdish led to immediate calls for her arrest. Leyla Zana was the first Kurdish woman to win a seat in the Turkish Parliament in 1991. You can read the whole story at the link under ABOUT on the right of this page. Turkey’s military launched a ground assault against PKK camps inside Iraq in February and there have been sporadic clashes along the border and inside Turkey since then.Leyla Zana is again sentenced to jail in a Turkish Court. The conflict between the PKK and the government has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people since the fighters took up arms in 1984. The bomb went off after the convoy passed and no one was harmed. Troops have been hunting Kurdish fighters around Tunceli since a roadside bomb attack targeted a military convoy in the area on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Turkish troops on Thursday killed 11 PKK fighters in clashes near the city of Tunceli in eastern Turkey, the provincial governor’s office said. However, the president would now have to give the green light for any such trial to proceed. Central to those reforms is a move to soften a law, article 301 of the penal code, which has been used against hundreds of writers including Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel literature laureate, for insulting “Turkishness”.Ī legal amendment to the article, likely to be passed next week, is weaker than Brussels might have hoped, with writers still liable to prosecution for insulting the Turkish nation.
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