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Free Leyla Zana!


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Éditeur : Compte d'auteur Date & Lieu : 2008, Washingtion
Préface : | | Pages : 2004
Traduction : ISBN : 0-9658604-5-0
Langue : AnglaisFormat : 125x200 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Eng. Ame. Fre. N°3875Thème : Politique

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Free Leyla Zana!

Free Leyla Zana!

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Leyla Zana was born in Diyarbakir, Turkish Kurdistan in 1961.
At the age of 15, she was forced to marry her father’s cousin, Mehdi Zana.
Years later, commenting on her marriage, she said:

“I don’t blame my family or my husband, rather I blame the social conditions. These must be changed.”
In October 1991, she ran for a seat in the Turkish Parliament to represent her hometown of Diyarbakir.
She received approximately 41,000 votes, or 84 % of the total vote.

She became the first Kurd to break the ban on the Kurdish language in the Turkish Parliament, for which she was later tried and convicted of treason. She had uttered the following words:
“I am taking this [constitutional] oath for the brotherhood of the Turkish and Kurdish peoples.”

On May 17, 1993, she and her colleague Ahmet Turk addressed members of the Helsinki Commission of the United States Congress. Their testimony was used against her in the court of law.
On March 2, 1994, colleagues in the Turkish Parliament revoked her constitutional immunity, paving the way for the Turkish police to arrest her.

On March 4, 1994, she was arrested and taken into ...


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Table of Contents


Preface by Jose Ramos-Horta / 1
Preface by Kathryn Cameron Porter / 5
Preface by Lord Eric Avebury / 7
Leyla Zana at a Glance / 11

Kurds and Kurdistan at a Glance / 13
Support for Leyla Zana in the U.S. Congress:
An Urgent Appeal to the President of the United States / 21
Special Order address by U.S. Representative Frank Pallone / 25
May 1, 1997
Special Order address by U.S. Representative Bob Filner / 31
May 1, 1997
Leyla Zana In Her Own Words:

Testimony of Ahmet Turk and Leyla Zana Before the / 39
Helsinki Commission of the United States Congress,
May 17, 1993
Kurdish Crv of Protest Rises From Prison Cell. / 45
by Leyla Zana, September 7, 1994
Qn TriallQt Jcing a-KugL by Leyla Zana, / 49
December 5, 1994
Presentation of the 1995 Sakharov Freedom Award to Leyla Zana:

Address by the President of the European Parliament / 55
Dr. Klaus Hansch, January 17, 1996
Acceptance Speech by Leyla Zana, January 17, 1996 / 61
Commentaries:
From Weakness to Resistance: A Portrait of Levla Zana. / 73
by the Kurdistan Information Center, July 1995
Free Levla Zana!. by Kani Xulam, July 12, 1994 / 79

Remembering Leyla Zana. by the American Kurdish / 85
Information Network, December 5, 1996 Champion of Kurdish liberties remains in iail. / 89
by Noah Weiss, April 6, 1997 Support for Leyla Zana in Europe:
Women Parliamentarians Support Leyla Zana, July 6, 1995 / 97
Letter to Members of the European Parliament from / 103
Danielle Mitterand, December 1995 Peace in Kurdistan Press Release, March 1997 / 111
Peace in Kurdistan Press Release, April 1997 / 115
The Trial of Leyla Zana, December 1994:

The Indictment of Leyla Zana / 121
The Defense of Leyla Zana / 169
Acknowledgments / 201

 




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