General information

Call No.:

350-4-6:4/1

Part of series

HU OSA 350-4-6 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Middle East: Turkey

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #4 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009991

Date of production

1995

Date

1995

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Duration

11 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Documentary film

Contents Summary

Documentary about Leyla Zana, a Kurdish female politician from Eastern Turkey, who was imprisoned for speaking her native language of Kurdish in the Turkish Parliament after taking her parliamentary oath, and for political actions which were claimed to be against the unity of Turkey. Major international political figures call for Turkey to stop oppressing Kurds and observe international human rights conventions.