Mentions:
1: Lord Risby (CON - Life peer) But the Turks have spent $4.5 billion in feeding and housing the enormous influx of people who have come - Speech Link
2: Lord Stone of Blackheath (Non-affiliated - Life peer) is the Syrians and the Kurds, those suffering in Iran and Iraq or those calling themselves Islamic State - Speech Link
3: Lord Weidenfeld (CB - Life peer) , and refused to help the gallant Kurds defend Kobane against the ISIS hordes. - Speech Link
4: Lord Balfe (CON - Life peer) First, there seems to be a misconception that the problems between the Kurds and the Turks are of recent - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Douglas Alexander (LAB - Paisley and Renfrewshire South) the Kurds would provide resistance to ISIL’s advance on the ground. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hammond of Runnymede (CON - Life peer) to historical relationships between the Kurds and the Turks, the Kurds and the Iraqis, and the Iraqis - Speech Link
3: Lord Hammond of Runnymede (CON - Life peer) We have close contact with the Turks on the movement of British-originating potential fighters across - Speech Link
4: Philip Hollobone (CON - Kettering) jihadist of British and American aid workers, and given that the offence of treason still exists, but - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (CON - The Cotswolds) There are rumours that the Turks are buying oil from ISIS. - Speech Link
2: Richard Ottaway (CON - Croydon South) A huge rift has arisen between the Sunnis, the Shi’as and, to a degree, the Kurds. - Speech Link
3: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) on the ground, just as the Kurds are. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: David Cameron (CON - Witney) We are already helping the Kurds, delivering arms to them. - Speech Link
2: Mike Gapes (TIG - Ilford South) Is he now saying that we will arm the Kurds, which I would welcome, and what weaponry will we give them - Speech Link
3: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) That resonated very strongly with me as an islander, and with my desire to remain British. - Speech Link
4: David Cameron (CON - Witney) The Turks have taken quite a few steps to provide further security at their border, and they are looking - Speech Link
5: Martin Vickers (CON - Cleethorpes) support of the British people? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Sharkey (LDEM - Life peer) Many Turks see the prospect of EU membership as neither realistic nor desirable. - Speech Link
2: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) We could ensure that British companies are fully involved. - Speech Link
3: Lord Anderson of Swansea (LAB - Life peer) where will the Kurds fit in? - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hussein-Ece (LDEM - Life peer) Turkey’s stance while shaping their policies.Turkey’s successful economic policies have allowed more Turks - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) What will the British Government be able to do about that in their discussions with Pakistan? - Speech Link
2: Stephen Pound (LAB - Ealing North) of my good friends Jenie and Isaac Asia—gave an enormous amount to the British. - Speech Link
3: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) That crisis needs a co-ordinated international response and the British Government should take a much - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (CB - Life peer) we need to talk to our closest ally who is affected by the situation in a way that we are not: the Turks - Speech Link
2: Lord Marlesford (CON - Life peer) On these simple tests, I believe that the British foreign policy on Syria has been and is dangerously - Speech Link
3: Lord Hunt of Chesterton (LAB - Life peer) There was plenty of evidence for it in his attack on the Kurds, but it was not so clear, as the noble - Speech Link
4: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) The Arab League has condemned it and a number of other Governments have condemned it; the Turks have - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Hain (LAB - Life peer) Together those behind Assad amount to nearly a third of the Syrian people; add the Kurds and the total - Speech Link
2: Mike Gapes (TIG - Ilford South) Kurdish people have almost total autonomy in one part of the country, as was the case for the Iraqi Kurds - Speech Link
3: Robert Walter (CON - North Dorset) , Armenians, Assyrians, Turks, Druze and other Shi’ites and secular Sunnis have coalesced to shore up - Speech Link
4: Brooks Newmark (CON - Braintree) It must reach out to the Alawites, the Kurds, the Druze and the Christians.My fifth recommendation is - Speech Link
5: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) They were far greater commitments, risking the lives of British servicemen and women. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Williams of Baglan (CB - Life peer) Not only the Alawite community but Christians, Druze and Kurds have not been drawn in any substantial - Speech Link
2: Baroness Afshar (CB - Life peer) That is why the Turks are in the streets and why the Egyptians are in the streets. - Speech Link
3: Lord Anderson of Swansea (LAB - Life peer) We think of the position of the Kurds, dealt a bad hand by history and now with a new dynamic not only - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Exeter (Bishops - Bishops) Mine begins with my father who served with the British Mandate force, and I grew up with his memories - Speech Link
2: Lord Steel of Aikwood (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Lord Caradon was the British representative and a key figure in the formulation of UN Resolution 242, - Speech Link
3: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LDEM - Life peer) remember his words in December 2011 when he said,“almost every community-Muslims, Christians, Jews; Arabs, Kurds - Speech Link
4: Baroness Warsi (CON - Life peer) The Foreign and Commonwealth Office funded a visit and report by a team of respected British lawyers, - Speech Link