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Lecture about Turkish and Kurdish ethnic Conflict
15/05/2008

You are kindly invited to attend the forthcoming KSSO film screening and seminar in association with Kurdish society at SOAS:

The obstacles and options for a political and peaceful solution of Turkish and Kurdish ethnic conflict

Chaired by Prof. Mary Davis
London Metropolitan University

Guest speaker Mrs Leyla Zana
European Parliament Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought & Rafto Prize, Former Kurdish Democracy Party MP and former political prisoner

Date: Friday 23 May 2008
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Location: Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS

Documentary film: LEYLA ZANA
Director: Kudret Gunes
France 2002 / 51m / Kurdish and French with English subtitles

Leyla Zana, the first Kurdish woman MP to be elected to the Turkish Parliament in 1992, was imprisoned in 1994 for 15 years for speaking in Kurdish in the Parliament. Kudret Gunes' personal look at the life of Zana takes her to her birth-place, friends and exiled husband.

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Lecture about Turkish and Kurdish ethnic Conflict 15/05/2008

Lecture about Turkish and Kurdish ethnic Conflict
15/05/2008