Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2019 to Question 206886 on Leyla Guven, when UK Government officials last raised the case of Leyla Güven with the Turkish government; and what assurances the Government it has sought from the Turkish Government on her welfare.

Further to my written answer (206886), our Embassy in Ankara raised concerns over the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) hunger strikers, including Leyla Guven, with the Turkish Government earlier this month. They have also discussed the issue with the HDP. They did so most recently on 18 January. We are pleased to note that Leyla Guven was released from detention on 25 January. We expect Turkey to treat hunger striking detainees fairly, and to allow access to medical treatment.