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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 08 Nov 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) If his Department will refer allegations of the use of chemical weapons by Turkey in northern Iraq to - Speech Link
2: Kim Johnson (LAB - Liverpool, Riverside) Does he also agree that not doing so gives cover to Turkey’s human rights abuses against Kurds living - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) regard the PKK to be a terrorist organisation—that is why we have proscribed it—and that we believe Turkey - Speech Link
4: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) Sezgin is a member of the CHP, the founding party of Turkey; he is not of the Kurdish party. - Speech Link

Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration

Oct. 05 2022

Source Page: IAGCI invites tenders to evaluate Home Office country information products
Document: Country policy and information note: Iraq, opposition to the government in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), June 2021 (PDF)

Found: 25 and 35 million Kurds inhabit a mountainous region straddling the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria,

Parliamentary Research
Iraq in 2022: Forming a government - CBP-9605
Aug. 04 2022

Found: Iraq in 2022: Forming a government

Early Day Motion
Alleged Turkish war crimes in northern Iraq (15 Signatures)
19 Jul 2022
Tabled by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
That this House puts on record its profound concerns about repeated allegations from various credible sources of the use by the Turkish armed forces of chemical weapons in its ongoing military operation against the Kurds in northern Iraq, known by Kurds as southern Kurdistan, and elsewhere in that region; notes …
Select Committee
First Report - Channel crossings, migration and asylum

Report Jul. 18 2022

Inquiry: Channel crossings, migration and asylum-seeking routes through the EU
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Home Affairs Committee (Department: Home Office)

Found: 28Positive interventions in France 30 Child protection in the migrant population 30 6 Reception in

Commons Chamber
NATO Accession: Sweden and Finland - Wed 06 Jul 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Lammy (LAB - Tottenham) North Atlantic treaty in 1949. - Speech Link
2: John Howell (CON - Henley) to the Council of Europe for the lobbying that we have undertaken of the Turkish delegation to get Turkey - Speech Link
3: Derek Twigg (LAB - Halton) questions in yesterday’s Select Committee meeting—quickly in response to the threat that we now face - Speech Link
4: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) I am, however, concerned about reports of the Kurds being used as a bargaining chip in the negotiations - Speech Link

Select Committee
King's College London, and RUSI

Oral Evidence Jun. 29 2022

Inquiry: Defence concepts and capabilities: from aspiration to reality
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: International Relations and Defence Committee

Found: We have one explicit ally in the Middle East region, which is Turkey.

Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
UK Visas and Immigration

Jun. 20 2022

Source Page: Syria: country policy and information notes
Document: Country policy and information note: security situation, Syria, June 2022 (PDF)

Found: Syrian government for help, allowing regime soldiers to re - enter areas that had been held by the Kurds

Commons Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Consideration of Lords amendmentsConsideration of Lords Message - Wed 20 Apr 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) As I have said many times before, those in need of protection should claim in the first safe country - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) Nobody in this House or elsewhere should be encouraging people to put their lives in the hands of evil - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) In terms of various schemes, as I say, we have a rich and proud history in this country of providing - Speech Link
4: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) Britain recognises that Turkey is oppressive to Kurds. - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Tue 22 Mar 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) I wanted to highlight the difficulty for Syrian Kurds, who often flee over the Turkish border. - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) There were 48,000 asylum cases in the UK, 96,000 in France, and 127,000 in Germany. - Speech Link
3: Kim Johnson (LAB - Liverpool, Riverside) have been displaced because of conflict and persecution and are seeking safe passage, including Syrian Kurds - Speech Link