Writings from Prison By Leyla Zana
Forewords by Elena Bonner & Betty Williams Texts translated from Kurdish and Turkish by Kendal Nezan, from French by Harriet Lutzky
BLUE CRANE BOOKS WRITINGS FROM PRISON BY LEYLA ZANA Published in 1999 by Blue Crane Books P.O.Box 291, Cambridge, MA 02238 Copyright © 1999 by Leyla Zana
All rights reserved. No part of this book may by used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher. Leyla Zana's writings were first published in French as Ecrits de prison by Des femmes, 1995. This collection first published in English by Blue Crane Books, 1999. First Edition 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2
Cover design by Aramais Andonian Photograph of Leyla Zana Courtesy of Institut kurde de Paris Book design, typography & electronic pagination by Arrow Graphics, Inc. Watertown, Massachusetts Printed in Canada Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zana, Leyla, 1961
[Ecrits de prison. English] Writings from prison / Leyla Zana forewords by Elena Bonner and Betty Williams. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Human rights & democracy) ISBN 1-886434-08-5 (alk. paper) 1. Zana, Leyla, 1961– —Correspondence. 2. Human rights—Turkey. 3. Kurds—Civil rights—Turkey. 4. Women political prisoners—Turkey—Correspondence. I. Title. III. Series. JC599.T87 Z3613 1999 323.11915970561—dc21 99-11873 CIP
Acknowledgement Special thanks to the directors and staff of Institut kurde de Paris, Dr. Harriet Lutzky, Washington Kurdish Institute, and Amnesty International Somerville, Massachusetts Chapter for their invaluable editorial and research assistance.
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