re-elected to Parliament in the 12 June 2011, and on 1 July 2012, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met Leyla Zana in his office. This meeting took place after a recent Hürriyet interview in which Leyla Zana said she was hopeful that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would solve the Kurdish–Turkish conflict. Her words were criticized as 'naive' by the BDP leadership, but were welcomed by the Turkish government. She was re-elected in June 2015, and the snap elections of November 2015. After her election in November 2015, she spoke again some Kurdish words, and also used "people of Turkey" instead of "Turkish people" which caused the speaker of the parliament to invalidate her oath and seat in parliament. In November 2016, Zana was temporarily arrested along with other lawmakers from BDP/HDP, again accused of affiliation with the PKK. In February 2017 she was again shortly detained and questioned over an investigation into alleged terrorism related charges. In July 2017, Zana's HDP deputy seat was under AKP-lead parliamentary review and potential exclusion for "failing to properly take her oath of office, as well as rampant absenteeism". On 11 January 2018, Zana's parliamentary membership was revoked for missing 212 parliamentary sessions from October 2016 to April 2017 by a 302–22 vote in the Turkish Parliament, with CHP and HDP MPs in attendance voting against. On the 17 March 2021, the state prosecutor to the Court of Cassation Bekir Şahin filed a lawsuit to the Constitutional Court which demanded for her and 686 other HDP politicians a five-year ban for a political participation together with a closure of the HDP due to their alleged organizational links to the PKK. Awards and recognition Rafto Prize in 1995 Sakharov Prize in 1995 Bruno Kreisky Prize for Services to Human Rights in 1995 Honorary citizenship of the City of Geneva Aachener Friedenspreis in 1995 She was also recognized as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. In 2002, a film named The Back of the World, directed by Spanish-Peruvian filmmaker Javier Corcuera, examined her imprisonment. See also Human rights in Kurdistan Region Human rights in Turkey References External links CILDEKT International Committee for the Liberation of the Kurdish Parliamentarians Imprisoned in Turkey The Back of the World at Rotten Tomatoes 1961 births Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Turkey Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights Democracy Party (Turkey) politicians Democratic Society