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Info Turkish Kurd activist finally to be hailed for rights award Turkey s Kurdish activist Leyla Zana is to address the European Parliament next week and finally be honoured for an EU human rights prize awarded in 1995 when she was in jail, officials said Friday. Zana, who was released in June after a decade behind bars, will be hailed personally nine years after she was awarded the Sakharov prize by the European Union s legislative assembly, which she will address on Thursday. Parliament President Josep Borrell welcomed the trip. He s very happy she s coming because . she received the Sakharov prize a long time ago, said his spokesman Jacques Nancy, adding: That means that Turkey is making progress.