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Kurdish Political Prisoner Leyla Zana Released After a Decade in Jail

Kurdish Political Prisoner Leyla Zana Released After a Decade in Jail

Kurdish leader Leyla Zana was released yesterday after spending 10 years in a Turkish jail for daring to speak Kurdish and wear the Kurdish colors in the ribbons in her headband in Parliament. We play the historic addresses of Leyla Zana speaking in parliament and defending herself at her trial and go to Turkey for a report from activists on the ground. [Includes transcript]

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