Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Council of Europe and other independent agencies will be sending observers to monitor the elections in Turkey on 24 June.

Both the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe are mounting electoral observer missions to monitor the Turkish parliamentary and presidential elections. The UK welcomes these efforts, and is providing practical support to the mission of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe.