Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the (a) extent, (b) effectiveness and (c) sources of financing of PKK terrorism in Turkey; and what support the Government has offered to the government of Turkey to help tackle such terrorism.

​The PKK, and the linked Kurdistan Freedom Falcons are proscribed terrorist groups in the UK and within the EU, which makes the provision of financial support to them a criminal act. We continue to take action against their terrorist activity domestically and to encourage international partners to do the same. The UK and Turkey continue to work closely together to address terrorism in all its forms, on a bilateral basis and through international forums such as the Global Counter - Terrorism Forum, and the international Coalition Against Daesh. We continue to express our view that PKK violence must cease, and to encourage a peace process to bring the ongoing violence in the south east of Turkey to an end.