Author: Piling » Wed Dec 28, 2005 10:16 pm
ust one thing concerning Leyla Zana,
I have met her in europe right before she was put in jail. This woman knew she would be put in jail for a long time, killed or worst.
People had asked her to stay in europe...
Well you know what followed, she went back in turkish-occupied-Kurdistan and was arrested and put to jail.
Her reason was and I quote: "I can do more for the Kurdish cause captive in jail than free in europe".
Effectively when she was in Europe the PKK has told her to not return in turkey but she has insisted to dot it. I don't think it was so useful... as I think that her speech in Turkish Assembly was not clever, for the first time there was a Kurdish party the HADEP in Turkish Parliament and she spoilt everything, just because she wanted to play "martyr attitude"... or perhaps the PKK worried about the political success of the HADEP .
And some days just before her arrest, she talked a long time by phone with Öcalan, while she was in Ankara, and of course, listened by secret police...
Leyla Zana is not stupid and coward like Öcalan, she is only stupid.
And you are not well informed about the Kurdish Institute's official opinion

, it has supported her a long time, and has even made campaign for starting her celebrity in Europe, before the PKK in fact.
So she was essentially the mediatic puppet of Europe, at a such point that in 1999-2000, in Turkey, ppl were surprised when Foreign delegation cared about her. She was only considered in the HADEP like a "woman with psychological trouble". And of course Öcalan, a bit jealous of her "success", sometimes tries to weaken her position, sometimes uses of her against another PKK official, like Murat Karayilan for example, or Dehap direction.