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Westminster Hall
Turkey: Treatment of Kurds - Wed 10 Apr 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) I beg to move,That this House has considered the treatment of Kurds in Turkey.Thank you, Mr Howarth - Speech Link
2: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) world not to look on in silence at the human rights abuses against the Kurds in Turkey. - Speech Link
3: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) historical wrong in terms of the map, but also recognising the role that the Kurds have played in allying - Speech Link
4: Mark Field (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) As Members will be aware, there are also large Kurdish populations in Iraq, Iran and Syria, countries - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 02 Apr 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Harriett Baldwin (CON - West Worcestershire) the Islamic State in West Africa in the north of the country. - Speech Link
2: Joan Ryan (TIG - Enfield North) We know that Hamas is given tens of millions of dollars a year by Iran to fund these terrorist acts. - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) marks the third anniversary of the detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran. - Speech Link
4: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) He is one of 1,000 Kurds on hunger strike around the world, demanding that Abdullah Öcalan is allowed - Speech Link
5: Mark Field (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) On 17 December, the UK co-sponsored a UN resolution on human rights in Iran, highlighting its failure - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Syria - Mon 11 Mar 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) It is very clear that it has no issue with the Kurdish population; 10 million Kurds live peacefully in - Speech Link
2: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) Iran will have some questions to answer about how it sees its presence in the future of Syria. - Speech Link
3: Philip Hollobone (CON - Kettering) Daesh would not have been defeated in Syria were it not for the valiant efforts of the Syrian Kurds in - Speech Link
4: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) Iraq by the Kurds and by the Iraqi security forces in Lebanon, where the Lebanese armed forces again - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Kurdistan Region in Iraq - Wed 06 Mar 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Philip Hollobone (CON - Kettering) When the Iraqi army was in full flight, it was only the Kurds who prevented Kirkuk from being taken by - Speech Link
2: Jack Lopresti (CON - Filton and Bradley Stoke) Friend just said, Kirkuk had been saved by the peshmerga in 2014, but Kirkuk turned against the Kurds - Speech Link
3: Fabian Hamilton (LAB - Leeds North East) The Kurds always seem to attract the wrath of the regimes in the region. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2019 - Thu 28 Feb 2019
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Lord Turnberg (LAB - Life peer) , which we would all like to see, it will not stop Iran and Hezbollah in their anti-Semitic activities.Against - Speech Link
2: Lord Glasman (LAB - Life peer) Lords, I declare an interest as a member of Labour Friends of Israel and the chair of the APPG for Kurds - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Counter-Daesh Update - Mon 11 Feb 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: James Morris (CON - Halesowen and Rowley Regis) Does he agree with me that the continued influence of Russia and Iran in Syria and across the middle - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) the region, and we should also say that about the activities of Iran. - Speech Link
3: Philip Hollobone (CON - Kettering) if not independence, at least autonomy in Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran? - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) The truth is that we have seen what important allies the Kurds have been in this battle against Daesh - Speech Link
5: Jonathan Edwards (IND - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) aggression and to allow the Kurds to finish the job in the last stronghold of Daesh in Deir ez-Zor province - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 22 Jan 2019
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) What dialogue has the Minister had with the Government of Iraq on the rights of Kurdish Iraqis and Kurds - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) in preventing Iran developing a nuclear programme. - Speech Link
3: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) Friend condemn the role in Syria of Iran, a regime that is terrorising its people at home and many across - Speech Link
4: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) The actions of Iran in supporting the Assad regime and the way in which it has conducted a civil war - Speech Link
5: Alan Duncan (CON - Rutland and Melton) in respect of Syria and the Kurds. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Brexit: Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration - Mon 14 Jan 2019
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Lord King of Bridgwater (CON - Life peer) We have President Trump threatening to devastate the Turkish economy if they invade the Kurds. - Speech Link
2: Lord Cavendish of Furness (CON - Life peer) I have traded in some 50 countries in the world. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) We have not been in the euro or in Schengen. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Religious Intolerance and Prejudice - Wed 17 Oct 2018
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hain (LAB - Life peer) A mosque and a Sikh gurdwara in Leeds were attacked in the early hours of a Tuesday morning in early - Speech Link
2: Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (Bishops - Bishops) It is in confidence in our civil discourse and in our free expression that we gain confidence in our - Speech Link
3: Baroness Deech (CB - Life peer) creating a Muslim enclave, again with accompanying deprivation and refugees, or the suppression of the Kurds - Speech Link
4: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) Yet to see the persecution of the Zoroastrians in Iran is very sad. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Turkey: Kurds and Yazidis in Syria - Wed 23 May 2018
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Hylton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of allegations of genocide by Turkey against the Kurds - Speech Link
2: Lord Hylton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Kurds and Yazidis are being murdered while Turks from Turkey, Syrian refugees from Turkey and displaced - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) discussion with President Erdogan on foreign policy issues, such as the Israeli-Palestinian situation, Iran - Speech Link
4: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) is to be any long-term solution to the Syrian conflict, it has to include a degree of autonomy for Kurds - Speech Link