Leyla Zana

Leyla Zana , is a Kurdish politician, who was imprisoned foryears for her political activism, which was deemed by the Turkish courts to be against the unity of the country. When she was a member of proKurdish Democratic Society Party, she was banned from joining any political party for five years with the Constitutional Courts decision to ban this party. She has been elected as an independent member of parliament for Diyarbakr by the support of Peace and Democracy Party.

Leyla Zana was born in May 1961 to a traditional family in the small village of Bache in Eastern Turkey. One of four sisters and one brother, Leyla was a rebel from childhood. Defiant of the strict religion and a male dominated social order, she refused to wear a head scarf before she was married, and afterwords she wore one for a short time only.

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