![]() When she was 14 years old, she was married to Mehdi Zana, who became the mayor of Diyarbakır three years later in 1977 until the military coup d'état and a political prisoner after it. She was born in May 1961, in Silvan, Diyarbakır Province, in the southeast of Turkey. ![]() She was also awarded the Rafto Prize in 1994 after being recognized by the Rafto Foundation for being incarcerated for her peaceful struggle for the human rights of the Kurdish people in Turkey and the neighbouring countries. ![]() She was awarded the 1995 Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament but was unable to collect it until her release in 2004. ![]() She was imprisoned for ten years for her political activism, which was deemed by the Turkish courts to be against the unity of the country. Leyla Zana (born ) is a Kurdish politician from Kurdish descent. ![]()
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