The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison

Translation Coordinators Preface - Ruken Isik, Emek Ergun, and Janet Biehl Preface to English Edition - Gltan Kanak Overview: The Growing Struggle for Women's Liberation - Gltan Kanak 1. How Will You Find That Many Women? - Aysel Tuluk 2. Mother, Child, Prison - Burcu elik zkan 3. We Never Considered It from That Angle - lar Demirel 4. Hurry up and Fix Things-Don't Let Us Down Before Our Husbands- Diba Keskin 5. I Struggled Hard, But I Never Gave Up - Dilek Hatiplu 6. We Have Your Keys. You Can Come and Get Them - Edibe ahin 7. Women's Worked Viewed as Frivolous - Evin Keve 8. You're Going to Eat with the Men? - Fatma Dan 9. History Has No Love for Women Who Stop and Keep Quiet - Figen Yksekd 10. Three Times Elected, Three Years Barred from Serving - Glser Yldrm 11. Being a Woman is Hard Even Dangerous - Gltan Kanak 12. Are Men Going to Walk Behind a Woman? - Leyla Gven 13. Mayor, We Don't Dare Say Anything to These Women Anymore - Mukaddes Kubilay 14. One Must Travel from City to City. Women Can't Do It - Nurhayat Altun 15. Women Should Be the Ones to Handle Finances - Sara Kaya 16. This Woman Is Tough as Nails - Sadiye Ser Baran 17. From Prison to Parliament - Sebahat Tuncel 18. Imprisoned for Providing Services - Selma Karako 19. One Woman Became Eighty - Yldz etin 20. Is Sir Chiefwoman in? - Zeynep Han Bingl 21. They've Turned It into a Womens Municipality - Zeynep Sipik 22. Breaking Down the Doors - Selma Irmak Freedom for Aysel Tuluk Translators and Coordinators