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Commons Chamber
Syria - Thu 26 Nov 2015
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: David Cameron (CON - Witney) It has already taken the lives of British hostages, and inspired the worst terrorist attack against British - Speech Link
2: Lord Clarke of Nottingham (CON - Life peer) the Saudis and Turks closer to the Iranians. - Speech Link
3: Dennis Skinner (LAB - Bolsover) Turkey has been bombing the Kurds, and the Kurds are fighting ISIL. - Speech Link
4: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) Muslims and the rest of the British population. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
G20 and Paris Attacks - Tue 17 Nov 2015
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Mike Gapes (TIG - Ilford South) Kurds on the frontline south of Kirkuk. - Speech Link
2: David Cameron (CON - Witney) I look at them and have discussed them with the Turks a huge amount. - Speech Link
3: David Cameron (CON - Witney) I say to the British people that we should go about our lives and that we should be vigilant and work - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Syrian Refugees - Thu 29 Oct 2015
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In the mix are the Kurds, detested by the Turks but one of the most effective fighting forces against - Speech Link
2: Baroness Morris of Bolton (CON - Life peer) Government and the British people are doing to support the Syrian refugees, alongside all our other - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bishops - Bishops) Lebanon, supported by the British charity Jerusalem and the Middle East Church Association.I recognise - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
European Council - Mon 19 Oct 2015
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: David Cameron (CON - Witney) I can confirm that the British Government’s policy has not changed, and what my right hon. and learned - Speech Link
2: David Cameron (CON - Witney) That was very much the British agenda, and the British agenda has come through. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Middle East and North Africa - Wed 16 Sep 2015
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Lord Williams of Baglan (CB - Life peer) In Turkey, we have sadly seen yet again renewed conflict between the Government and the Kurds. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hussein-Ece (LDEM - Life peer) The Turks have opened their borders and been criticised for doing so, but nevertheless they have taken - Speech Link
3: Lord Greaves (LDEM - Life peer) people do not like the regime and, secondly, because of the violence.I turn to the Peshmerga Kurds. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Sandwich (CB - Excepted Hereditary) What about Kurds and Iraqis—indeed, those who come across the Middle East through Libya, Turkey and other - Speech Link
5: Lord Naseby (CON - Life peer) All of us—Sunni, Shia, Turks, Kurds, Russia, the Western powers, China and India—must eradicate ISIL. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Refugee Crisis in Europe - Tue 08 Sep 2015
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Nigel Evans (CON - Ribble Valley) I pay tribute to the support that the British Government and British people are giving to them. - Speech Link
2: Damian Green (CON - Ashford) Does the Home Secretary agree that the very close and improving co-operation between the British and - Speech Link
3: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) the funeral of his wife and children that revealed an important truth: the family, all Syrian Kurds, - Speech Link
4: Tom Tugendhat (CON - Tonbridge and Malling) Ellwood), who has done much already on this, to talk to our allies in the region—the Jordanians, the Turks - Speech Link
5: Flick Drummond (CON - Meon Valley) , including the Kurds and the Yazidis as well, but we have to be mindful of our responsibilities. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Syria: Refugees and Counter-terrorism - Mon 07 Sep 2015
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: David Cameron (CON - Witney) Both Junaid Hussain and Reyaad Khan were British nationals based in Syria and were involved in actively - Speech Link
2: Harriet Harman (LAB - Camberwell and Peckham) We have witnessed its brutal torture and murder of British citizens abroad, and the sickening attacks - Speech Link
3: Ann Clwyd (LAB - Cynon Valley) That little boy came from Kobane, which was liberated by Syrian and Iraqi Kurds, not by us, and that - Speech Link
4: David Cameron (CON - Witney) That is why it is so important that British Muslim communities—as they do—stand up and condemn them and - Speech Link
5: Tom Tugendhat (CON - Tonbridge and Malling) second biggest donor, we are finally getting recognised for the efforts that we have made alongside the Turks - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Counter-ISIL Coalition Strategy - Mon 20 Jul 2015
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Last month, 30 British citizens were murdered on a beach in a brutal and cowardly attack inspired by - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) in Iraq, and the deeply ambivalent attitude of the Turks and of the Iraqi Government to their activities - Speech Link
3: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) under the British flag. - Speech Link
4: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) I think the same could be said for Turkey, which perhaps puts greater emphasis on countering the Kurds - Speech Link
5: Lord Dannatt (CB - Life peer) and British units on the ground. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Syria - Wed 24 Jun 2015
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hylton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) If Kurds, Assyrians, Arabs and others can co-operate, why should other Syrians not do the same? - Speech Link
2: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (CB - Life peer) Lastly, is it really the case that whereas the Turks and the Jordanians are dealing with millions of - Speech Link
3: Baroness Morgan of Ely (LAB - Life peer) What we need is an honest and complete reassessment of British and EU foreign and security policy in - Speech Link
4: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (CON - Life peer) Lord Alton, referred to the Kurds, as did the noble Lord, Lord Wright, and to the work of Staffan de - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
1915 Armenian Genocide - Mon 23 Mar 2015
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Pound (LAB - Ealing North) talking specifically of the actions of the Ottoman empire and particularly the Young Turks, whom I will - Speech Link
2: David Lidington (CON - Aylesbury) and over the course of this year, will help to illuminate further that period of history for British - Speech Link
3: Stephen Pound (LAB - Ealing North) after the genocide, the British Navy took 50 of the worst suspects from the Young Turks to Malta to - Speech Link