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

Mentions:
1: Emily Thornberry (LAB - Islington South and Finsbury) It is clear to anyone with any understanding of the situation in Syria that if the Kurds did not have - Speech Link
2: 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
3: 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
4: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) by Turkey in relation to Syria. - Speech Link
5: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) for its illegal actions against the Kurds? - 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
Debate on the Address - Mon 14 Oct 2019
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (CON - Sutton Coldfield) leadership, such as migration, climate change, protectionism, terrorism and the desperate threats that the Kurds - Speech Link
2: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) in the red in the past. - Speech Link
3: Tobias Ellwood (CON - Bournemouth East) speak about the erosion of the rules-based order; just look at what happened last week when we saw Turkey - Speech Link
4: Tobias Ellwood (CON - Bournemouth East) see the world split into two huge domains unless we check it, but that is for another debate.Back to Turkey - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (CB - Life peer) What is our policy towards the Kurds? Do we have no shame about betraying them now? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LDEM - Life peer) we not have some leverage to talk to Turkish leaders to try to ensure that their actions against the Kurds - 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


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: 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
3: Adam Holloway (CON - Gravesham) supporting the Syrian Kurds? - 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


Commons Chamber
Counter-Daesh Update - Wed 03 Jul 2019
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Rory Stewart (IND - Penrith and The Border) Jabhat al-Nusra, the Free Syrian Army, Shi’a communities as a whole, the Iranian Quds Force and the Kurds - Speech Link
2: Dan Carden (LAB - Liverpool, Walton) the House that the Kurdish community will not be abandoned or left vulnerable to attacks by Syria or Turkey - Speech Link
3: Rory Stewart (IND - Penrith and The Border) State—whether the issue is the minority rights of Yazidis and Christians, or the relationship between Kurds - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 08 May 2019
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) He is one of many Kurds on hunger strike around the world, including four others in the UK, protesting - Speech Link
2: Theresa May (CON - Maidenhead) We absolutely expect Turkey to undertake any legal processes against prisoners fairly, transparently - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Turkey: Treatment of Kurds - Wed 10 Apr 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) As a vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary group for Kurds in Turkey, I wanted to secure this debate - Speech Link
2: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) world not to look on in silence at the human rights abuses against the Kurds in Turkey. - Speech Link
3: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) Turkey on the treatment of Kurdish prisoners in Turkey and in particular on the conditions on İmralı - Speech Link
4: Mark Field (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) Our approach to the issue of the Kurds in Turkey needs to reflect aspects of that wider context.We should - Speech Link
5: Mark Field (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) in south-east Turkey. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 02 Apr 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Harriett Baldwin (CON - West Worcestershire) the Islamic State in West Africa in the north of the country. - Speech Link
2: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) He is one of 1,000 Kurds on hunger strike around the world, demanding that Abdullah Öcalan is allowed - Speech Link
3: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) Has the Foreign Secretary raised the matter with Turkey, and will he send representations to the Council - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) Turkey may be a NATO ally and an important friend of the United Kingdom, but that does not prevent us - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Syria - Mon 11 Mar 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) sheltering in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt. - Speech Link
2: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) It is very clear that it has no issue with the Kurdish population; 10 million Kurds live peacefully in - Speech Link
3: Philip Hollobone (CON - Kettering) Daesh would not have been defeated in Syria were it not for the valiant efforts of the Syrian Kurds in - Speech Link
4: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) Iraq by the Kurds and by the Iraqi security forces in Lebanon, where the Lebanese armed forces again - Speech Link