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Lords Chamber
Syria: British Armed Forces - Thu 24 Oct 2019
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) Turkey of course remains an important ally within NATO. - Speech Link
2: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) in their efforts to fight ISIS, despite the fact that Turkey and Russia are now taking over control - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LDEM - Life peer) the Kurds, with whom we have been working in Syria? - Speech Link
4: Lord Anderson of Swansea (LAB - Life peer) the region in favour of Russia? - Speech Link
5: Lord Elton (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Events are moving very fast in the region, but Daesh goes by different names in many different parts - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Syria and Iraq - Thu 24 Oct 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) However, for the moment, it is riding high and in cahoots with Turkey, so far as one can make out.What - Speech Link
2: Lord Alderdice (LDEM - Life peer) Turkey talking in such a way, along with the breakdown of the treaty with Iran and the situation in Israel - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) Turkey today is very different from the Turkey that joined NATO in 1952. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (CB - Life peer) of them ethnic Kurds who were our allies quite recently in fighting IS. - Speech Link
5: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) We have made that point in our exchanges with Turkey. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Brexit - Sat 19 Oct 2019
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Lord Baker of Dorking (CON - Life peer) both camps: one in Europe and one in our own country. - Speech Link
2: Lord Liddle (LAB - Life peer) inward investment in manufacturing in Britain. - Speech Link
3: Lord Birt (CB - Life peer) In future, we may in practice be only half out. - Speech Link
4: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (LAB - Life peer) Referenda will come in Scotland and, in due course, in Northern Ireland. - Speech Link
5: Lord Pannick (CB - Life peer) the Benn Act in the terms set out in the Schedule? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 16 Oct 2019
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Lord Lilley (CON - Life peer) Some 40% of young people in Spain are unemployed, 45% in Italy and 53% in Greece. - Speech Link
2: Lord Alderdice (LDEM - Life peer) The United States has involved itself in a whole series of wars in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in assistance - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) Turkey should be particularly mindful of its own history in this region, not least in the mass killings - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 15 Oct 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) multilateral diplomacy on the overlapping conflicts between Syria, Turkey, the Kurds, Iran, Saudi Arabia - Speech Link
2: Lord Anderson of Swansea (LAB - Life peer) in the Middle East, and, alas, ISIS, as the camps will not be guarded by the Kurds. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hylton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) In my view, it is unacceptable for Turkey to use refugees to put pressure on the European Union or to - Speech Link
4: Baroness Tonge (Non-affiliated - Life peer) the Saudi Embassy in Turkey. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Britain's Place in the World - Tue 15 Oct 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) I start with what is happening right now in Syria with regard to Turkey. - Speech Link
2: Siobhain McDonagh (LAB - Mitcham and Morden) allies in the battle against ISIS.One week into the Turkish assaults on the Kurds and we have seen executions - Speech Link
3: Thangam Debbonaire (LAB - Bristol West) in poverty, and in Turkey there are 3.6 million refugees. - Speech Link
4: Emily Thornberry (LAB - Islington South and Finsbury) Those issues would all feature in a Labour Queen’s Speech—the Kurds, Yemen and Palestine, torture, rendition - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Turkish Incursion into Northern Syria - Tue 15 Oct 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) In this case, we will of course keep our defence exports to Turkey under careful and continual review - Speech Link
2: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) In relation to Turkey itself, she makes quite an important point in relation to, I think, the arms purchases - Speech Link
3: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) There is no point in kidding ourselves that the action of Turkey has not made things more difficult in - Speech Link
4: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Over the years, the Kurds have been our most important allies in the fight against Daesh. - Speech Link
5: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) by Turkey in relation to Syria. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Mon 14 Oct 2019
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Newton (CON - Truro and Falmouth) What do we do in our personal lives with our families, in good times and bad, and in our communities - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) Since 2010, there are more workers in poverty, more children in poverty, more pensioners in poverty, - Speech Link
3: Jo Swinson (LDEM - East Dunbartonshire) place, and in his role in Bosnia. - Speech Link
4: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) in the red in the past. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
US Troop Withdrawal from Northern Syria - Tue 08 Oct 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tobias Ellwood (CON - Bournemouth East) If the zone is secured, Turkey intends then to move over 3 million refugees who are currently in Turkey - Speech Link
2: Andrew Murrison (CON - South West Wiltshire) been a major donor to this particular crisis through the EU Facility for Refugees in Turkey. - Speech Link
3: Ann Clwyd (LAB - Cynon Valley) I am afraid that the Kurds are being stabbed in the back once again, as they have been so many times - Speech Link
4: Kate Osamor (LAB - Edmonton) Many of the 50,000 Kurds who live in this country live in my constituency, and they are in a state of - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Syria: Withdrawal of US Troops - Tue 08 Oct 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) operation in north-east Syria. - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) As I have said, we stand by the SDF and our Kurdish partners, in both in Syria and Iraq. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) She is quite right to say that Turkey is a partner in NATO. - Speech Link