Leyla Zana
Leyla Zana ( May 3, 1961 in Silvan, Diyarbakır, Turkey) is a politician and human rights activist. Zana is Kurdish and the Turkish citizenship.
Zana was the wife of Mehdi Zana. She added as Members of their oath of office in the Kurdish language. Zana was accused of supporting a terrorist organization, and spent many years in prison. In the parliamentary elections on June 12, 2011 Leyla Zana was elected as an independent and non-party deputies in the Turkish National Assembly of the 24th legislative period.
Life
Family and Education
Leyla Zana comes from a family with four sisters and one brother. Her father was an employee.
Zana was 14 years old with 20 years old mayor of Diyarbakir, Mehdi Zana, married. Her husband was committed to the rights of the Kurds and was imprisoned in 1980. At that time, Leyla Zana had a son and was pregnant. As a result, Leyla Zana learned to read, write, and Turkish. She founded a support group for wives of imprisoned men and became a journalist. 1988 arrested you Leyla Zana.
First Deputies activity and arrest
In the parliamentary elections in 1991, Leyla Zana was chosen among other Hatip Dicle, Orhan Dogan and Selim Sadak In SHP- dial list in the Turkish parliament. At their oath of office on 6 November 1991 Leyla Zana wore a band in the traditional Kurdish colors of yellow, green and red around the head. The loyalty oath to put it down as it demanded the law, in the Turkish language from, but then added in Kurdish ". Long live the Turkish-Kurdish brotherhood " Your party was banned, was on 2 March 1994 parliamentary immunity Leyla repealed Zana and her group of six colleagues. Parliament welcomed the decision with a standing ovation.
Because of their behavior at the swearing and later speeches and writings in defense of Kurdish rights, the prosecutor demanded the death penalty. The court sentenced Leyla Zana and her colleagues in December 1994 for supporting a terrorist organization to 15 years in prison. 1998 her sentence was increased by two years.
In June 2002, the European Court of Human Rights condemned the actions of the Turkish authorities, and said Leyla compensation of 50,000 euros. In the course of Turkey's accession negotiations with the European Union, Turkey relented as a candidate in the spring of 2003 and took the process again. The hearing was abducted.
On 21 April 2004, the State Security Court in Ankara confirmed the judgments against Leyla Zana, Dicle Hatip, Orhan Dogan and Selim Sadak, so that at first it looked as if they would have the rest of her 15 - year sentence to settle. The verdict sparked violent protests from, among others, the European Union. The then Commissioner for Enlargement Günter Verheugen stated in view of the EU candidacy of Turkey, that the judgment was not in accordance with the Copenhagen criteria. On 9 June 2004 the Supreme Court ordered the provisional release of Leyla Zana and three with her convicted, although it should be decided only on 8 July 2004 on the further procedure. After leaving the prison, Leyla Zana was celebrated by a large crowd, the release has been widely welcomed, even by the Turkish government. Since her release, she sought the formation of a new party, the DTP, which was founded in October 2005.
In a new trial, the Trial Chamber 11 Large, in Ankara in March 2007, again at a guilty verdict, but reduced his term to 7.5 years.
The daily newspaper Hürriyet According to Zana testified in the investigation of sedition against the prosecutor that she saw one of the leaders of the Kurdish people in the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and that Öcalan was not a terrorist leader. On 10 April 2008 she was convicted of this statement by the Court in Diyarbakir for "propaganda for an illegal party" to two years in prison.
Re- charge and re-election of Deputies
On 4 December 2008, she was sentenced to a prison term of ten years because of membership in a terrorist organization under Article 314 II of the Turkish Penal Code, because it is the PKK did not condemn as a terrorist organization in a press statement and Ocalan called as the leader of the Kurdish people.
At the 2011 parliamentary elections Leyla Zana ran as an independent candidate for the province of Diyarbakir and won a direct mandate.
On May 24, 2012 Leyla Zana was sentenced by a court in Diyarbakir to a prison term of ten years. In a retrial, the court upheld a decision from the year 2008., The deputies of the Party for Peace and Democracy (BDP ) was added again to the load to be a member of a terrorist organization and in the years 2007 and 2008 in various speeches propaganda for the PKK common to have. The court in Diyarbakir, Zana had already condemned in 2008 because of these speeches to ten years in prison. The Supreme Court of Appeals in Ankara had, however, the judgment is quashed last year and ordered a retrial. The court in Diyarbakir has now confirmed its earlier judgment. Moreover, the court also revoked Zanas right to vote and the right to political office. As a member of the Turkish parliament Leyla Zana enjoys until the end of the current legislature in 2015 immunity.
Positions
During an election rally Zana gave a speech in which she called Abdullah Ocalan as one of the three leaders of the Kurds. The arrest of Ocalan was a political earthquake in the soul of the Kurds. In a speech called Zana that Turkey should be divided into provinces, including in a state called Kurdistan.
During an election rally in Bingöl on 20 July 2007 Zana said: