She was the first Kurdish woman to be elected to the Turkish Parliament. An extremely popular candidate, Leyla received 84 percent of the votes in her district of Diyarbakir.
Her personal development was virtually synonymous with the development of the Kurdish liberation struggle, and this culminated in her candidacy for Parliament in the 1991 elections in Turkey. Eventually, she assumed an unsolicited leadership role. The 1980 military coup in Turkey brought about a new wave of oppression against the Kurds, and Mehdi Zana was among thousands of activists who were arrested and imprisoned in the name of national security and democracy.įollowing her husband from prison to prison across Turkey and as the number of political prisoners grew in Turkey, Leyla became more involved in the plight of women whose husbands were abducted and imprisoned by the military regime. Layla Zana (Kurdish: Leyla Zana) was born in 1961 in the small village of Bache in Northern Kurdistan (Northern Kurdistan (Eastern Turkey)), Leyla married the Kurdish activist, Mehdi Zana, who in 1977 was elected Mayor of Diyarbakir-a major city in Northern Kurdistan (Eastern Turkey).
The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880-1925.Plotting the Geographical Distribution of Kurds.
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