on the imprisonment of the Kurdish politician Zana, whose case the WiPC has recently adopted, having established that she has writing credentials and that her imprisonment is in part a deliberate ...

Kurdish politician Leyla Zana is at court again after the Court of Appeals had overruled a two-year prison sentence decreed by a local court. Zana is tried for calling Celal Talabani, Mesut Barzani ...

Imagine a place where hunger is your loudest voice. Prison meals become political currency. Welcome to Turkey’s justice system, where fairness seems to be on vacation. The Kurdish political prisoners ...

Chaos ensued after a brawl broke out in the Kurdish parliament in Erbil on Monday, 22 May, in a dispute over the electoral process. Footage shows members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - A member of Turkey's parliament spoke Kurdish while taking her oath of office on Tuesday, but the acting speaker said her vow was invalid. Leyla Zana, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, ...

Turkey's pro-Kurdish political party threatened to withdraw from June elections after the election board on Monday vetoed the party's seven candidates, media reports said. April 18, 2011 ANKARA, Apr ...