Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the impact of the recent earthquakes in Turkey on the upcoming parliamentary elections in that country that are expected to be held on 14 May 2023.

We are monitoring the run-up to the 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey on May 14 and are in regular discussion with the Turkish electoral authorities, the government, opposition parties, civil society groups and the Turkish media. We note that Turkey is making wide-ranging contingency plans to enable voters affected or displaced by the February earthquakes to cast their ballots. We have stressed the need for the elections to be carried out in a free and fair manner.