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Frank Roy Excerpts
Tuesday 18th June 2013

(11 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Frank Roy Portrait Mr Frank Roy (Motherwell and Wishaw) (Lab)
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Erdem Gunduz, the standing man of Taksim square, stood for eight hours in peaceful protest yesterday. Will the Foreign Secretary ensure that he and others like him will be able to demonstrate peacefully without interference from Turkish authorities?

David Lidington Portrait Mr Lidington
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We certainly make it clear in all our conversations with the Government of Turkey that we look to Turkey to continue its progress in democratic and judicial reform and to respect all the human rights obligations into which it has entered.