Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are gathering any evidence of war crimes committed by the government of Turkey in the north of Syria and Iraq, as well as within Turkey, since 1988.

The British Government supports work by appropriate bodies to gather evidence of any violations and abuses of international human rights and international humanitarian law by any actor. This includes the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic and the UN International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism. It is British Government policy that any judgement on whether war crimes have occurred is a matter for judicial decision, rather than governments or non-judicial bodies.