Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his counterpart in Turkey on the protection of (a) freedom of assembly, (b) freedom of the press, (c) LGBT rights and (d) other human rights.

​The Foreign Secretary and I have frequent discussions with our Turkish counterparts on a wide range of human rights issues. Furthermore, our Embassy in Turkey is supporting projects to monitor the freedom of the press and LGBT rights there. Embassy officials also regularly attend human rights-related trials as observers.