Turkey -- 60 Years of Prison Wanted for Former Kurdish MP Leyla Zana

[Ali Asker]

60 Years of Prison Wanted for Former Kurdish MP Leyla Zana

60 years of prison sentence was asked for Leyla Zana for nine different
public addresses. Zana is a former MP of a closed down political party, DEP.
Diyarbakir High Criminal Court Num.5 hears the case.

Following the presentation of the indictment Zana asked the court to
consider her public addresses as part of freedom of expression.
Prosecution argued that Zana while not a member, committed crime following
the demands of the terrorist organisation, at every public meeting she
attended: "Suspect accepts that she does not consider PKK as a terrorist
organisation, she views the ringleader of the organisation Öcalan as 'a
leader of Kurdish people', and accepts PKK's struggle as a struggle of
'freedom and democracy'."

Prosecution wanted 45 years prison sentence for committing the crime of
"making terrorist propaganda" nine times, and 15 years for "committing crime
on behalf of the organisation while being a non-member". Time given for
defence case.

(antenna-tr.org, September 19, 2008)

http://www.info-turk.be/

[rich murphy]

The people Ali Asker and his fellow PKK terrorists are murdering in
Turkiye are the victims of fat-cats of Turkiye, mostly the descendants
of defunct but not gone Ottoman elite, same as all the other victims
of the oppressive regime of the same fat-cats. Ali Asker and his
fellow PKK terrorists believe murdering the victims of that oppression
will improve the lives of citizens of Turkite of Kurdish heritage.