Leyla Guven and Abdullah Ocalan
(asked on 23rd January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has raised the cases of Leyla Guven MP and Abdullah Ocalan with (a) the Turkish Government and (b) his European counterparts.
This question was answered on 30th January 2019
Our Embassy in Ankara raised concerns over the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) hunger strikers, including Leyla Guven, and the prison conditions of Abdullah Ocalan in discussions with Turkish officials in mid-January. We note that Leyla Guven was released from custody on 25 January. We regularly discuss such issues with European and other like-minded partners.