Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) progress and (b) fairness of appeals against the dismissal by public sector employees in Turkey since July 2016.

The State of Emergency Commission has reviewed almost 40,000 of some 125,000 applications for job reinstatements. We are aware of the concerns raised in Amnesty International's recent report about the speed and effectiveness of the appeals process. We have called on the Turkish authorities to ensure it works quickly and effectively and will continue to follow the issue closely.