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Select Committee
Dr Nazand Begikhani, Senior Research Fellow, Bristol University, and women’s rights advocate, Professor Mohammed Ihsan, Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London, and a former Minister of the Kurdistan Regional GovernmentDr Zeynep Kaya, Research Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, Guney Yildiz, Visiting Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations

Oral Evidence Nov. 21 2017

Inquiry: Kurdish aspirations and the interests of the UK inquiry
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Dr Nazand Begikhani, Senior Research Fellow, Bristol University, and women’s rights advocate, Professor


Select Committee
Evidence given by Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Sir Simon McDonald, Permanent Under Secretary, Karen Pierce, Political Director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
01 Nov 2017 - Oral evidence from the Foreign Secretary September 2019 - oral evidence

Oral Evidence Nov. 16 2017

Inquiry: Oral evidence from the Foreign Secretary
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: September 2019 - oral evidence Evidence given by Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and


Select Committee
Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Sir Simon McDonald, Permanent Under Secretary, Karen Pierce, Political Director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Oral Evidence Nov. 01 2017

Inquiry: Oral evidence from the Foreign Secretary
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Sir Simon McDonald,


Select Committee
Mr Laza Kekic; Dr Jarosław Wiśniewski; Dr Timothy Less; Dr Michael Taylor; Mr Michal Makocki

Oral Evidence Oct. 11 2017

Inquiry: Beyond Brexit: the UK and the Balkans inquiry
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: International Relations and Defence Committee

Found: This is not comparable with aid in the American or the British sense.


Parliamentary Research
Syria and Iraq: update July 2017 - CBP-8011
Jul. 21 2017

Found: Syria and Iraq: update July 2017


Westminster Hall
Kurdistan Region in Iraq - Tue 04 Jul 2017
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jack Lopresti (CON - Filton and Bradley Stoke) The treaty of Lausanne in 1923 led to the Turks formally ceding all earlier claims on Syria and Iraq - Speech Link
2: Mary Glindon (LAB - North Tyneside) I hope his wisdom will enable him to understand that the Iraqi Kurds have a special place in British - Speech Link
3: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) For that the Kurds will always thank the then British Prime Minister, John Major, and British public - Speech Link
4: Douglas Chapman (SNP - Dunfermline and West Fife) relationship between Iraq’s Arabs and Kurds. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Middle East (IRC Report) - Tue 04 Jul 2017
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) the US Congress; the Kurds are fighting for state identity as never before; and, as has already been - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (CB - Life peer) solution for Palestine, the reversal of Iraq’s aggression against Kuwait in 1991, the saving of the Kurds - Speech Link
3: Lord Judd (LAB - Life peer) it is not appropriate for Iran arbitrarily to arrest and detain British citizens, including British-Iranian - Speech Link
4: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) In Britain, Arabs and Turks, Iranians and Kurds breathe the freer air and plot peaceful or revolutionary - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Turkey: Human Rights and the Political Situation - Thu 09 Mar 2017
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Joan Ryan (TIG - Enfield North) Human rights are universal and that includes the rights of Kurds, Alevis and other minority groups in - Speech Link
2: Lord Garnier (CON - Life peer) I hope the British Parliament will encourage the British Government to remember that there is a distinction - Speech Link
3: Ann Clwyd (LAB - Cynon Valley) They are all Turks, and very well-known Turks—one was the most important male actor in Turkey. - Speech Link
4: Fabian Hamilton (LAB - Leeds North East) Kurds and Armenians, as its citizens. - Speech Link


Parliamentary Research
ISIS/Daesh: the military response in Iraq and Syria - SN06995
Mar. 08 2017

Found: ISIS/Daesh: the military response in Iraq and Syria


Parliamentary Research
Human rights and the political situation in Turkey - CDP-2017-0077
Mar. 06 2017

Found: Human rights and the political situation in Turkey