For the past 3 weeks #Turkey has been engaged in a military assault on Iraqi Kurds. It’s been brutal. Have you seen any big, rowdy protests in the #UK about this worrying act of asymmetrical warfare? https://t.co/FLxAgu92td
Mentions:
1: Baroness Cox (CB - Life peer) They continue to refuse to hold Turkey and Azerbaijan to account for their actions, despite clear evidence - Speech Link
2: Baroness Deech (CB - Life peer) The Turks launched an attack on the Kurds, and there was no reaction. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharkey (LDEM - Life peer) Turkey has taken an increasingly tough and even threatening posture over exploration and extraction. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (LAB - Leeds West) This Government are lacking in ambition and they are in denial about what businesses need to thrive in - Speech Link
2: Liam Byrne (LAB - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) In jeopardy are 110,000 jobs in the automotive industry. - Speech Link
3: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) I want to express my solidarity with the people of Gaza, as well as with the Kurds in Turkey, where a - Speech Link
4: Rachel Hopkins (LAB - Luton South) eight workers trapped in in-work poverty. - Speech Link
5: Edward Miliband (LAB - Doncaster North) It is the same in aerospace and in steel. - Speech Link
Formal Minutes Apr. 01 2021
Committee: Petitions CommitteeFound: (27) https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/201772 UK Government should urge Iran, Iraq and Turkey
Written Evidence Mar. 25 2021
Committee: NoneFound: TFT0004 - UK-Turkey Free Trade Agreement Unite the Union Written Evidence
Mentions:
1: Feryal Clark (LAB - Enfield North) In 2015, the general election in Turkey saw HDP, a pro-Kurdish party led by a charismatic leader able - Speech Link
2: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) The connection with Kurds in Syria is important, because many of the demonstrations that the Turkish - Speech Link
3: Wendy Morton (CON - Aldridge-Brownhills) We support the rights of LGBTI groups in Turkey. - Speech Link
Pleased to announce that the @KurdistanAPPG has launched a cross party inquiry into the oppression of Kurds in Turkey. I hope this inquiry can shine a light on what is happening in Turkey and give recommendations on the steps the @FCDOGovUK can be taking. https://t.co/s5t5mP0UcE
Oral Evidence Nov. 05 2020
Inquiry: The Government’s Constitution, Democracy and Rights CommissionFound: Trustee, Bristol Estate Leaseholders and Tenants Association), and Rohaan Saleem (Nuclear Engineer in
Asked by: Lord Hylton (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Prime Minister has received a joint letter, dated 2 September, from community organisations representing Cypriots, Armenians, Kurds and Egyptians in the UK about the government of Turkey's military actions; and if so, what assessment they have made of that letter.
Answered by Lord Grimstone of Boscobel
The joint letter was responded to by HM Government on 30th September 2020.
The response outlined our priority to replicate the effects of the existing EU trading relationship with Turkey as far as possible, into a bilateral arrangement by the end of the Transition Period, whilst also offering reassurance on the robustness of our policies on the important matters raised. Trade does not come at the expense of our record in upholding rights and responsibilities, which a key part of our foreign policy, and HM Government will continue to engage the Turkish Government on these issues.