| 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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