Asked by: Lisa Forbes (Labour - Peterborough)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what diplomatic steps his Department is taking to help resolve the situation in the Kurdish controlled territory of northern Syria arising from Turkish military action in that area.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The UK has taken bilateral and multilateral action to end the Turkish military incursion into north-east Syria. The Prime Minister spoke to President Erdogan on 12 and 20 October and the Foreign Secretary and Defence Secretary have also spoken to their Turkish counterparts. We and our European Union partners have issued statements condemning the Turkish military operation and we have also, with European partners, raised this issue at the UN Security Council.