11/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - Francis Wurtz MEP (GUE/NGL, France) has criticised a decision by Diyarbakir in Turkey sentencing former Turkish parliamentarian Leyla Zana, who is Kurdish, to two years in prison for having supported a terrorist organisation. Zana won the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize in 1995 after being found guilty of making a speech in March 2007 at a Kurdish festival in Diyarbakir. She has already spent ten years in prison with three other Kurdish parliamentarians for collusion with the PKK. Wurtz said 'this latest attack on the Kurdish people's freedom of expression… is unacceptable to the EU and all democrats who are fighting for a peaceful solution of the Kurdish question. This decision does not bode well for Turkey's willingness to adapt to the Copenhagen criteria'. (H.B.)