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Killings At Diyarbakir Funeral

EDM number 1125 in 1990-91, proposed by Thomas McAvoy on 11/07/1991.

That this House condemns the brutal murder by a Turkish death squad of Vedat Aydin, Chairperson of the Amed (Diyarbakir) branch of the Popular Labour Party and regards with horror the actions of the Turkish army in attacking the funeral procession on 10th July; notes that about 30,000 people attended that funeral and that the convoy of 7,000 vehicles was attacked by police on the outskirts of Diyarbakir, that special counter-insurgency teams and plainclothes police opened fire on the marchers, killing 20 and injuring 200, and that amongst the injured in this massacre were MP's Ibrahim Aksoy, Ahmet Turk and Adnan Ekmen and that amongst the 500 arrested were two Turkish journalists and five foreign journalists; considers that any state reacting in such a repressive manner can have no call on European Community membership; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to protest vigorously at these deaths and injuries.

This motion has been signed by a total of 25 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Thomas McAvoy11/07/1991Glasgow, RutherglenProposed
Jeremy Corbyn11/07/1991Islington NorthSigned
Bob Cryer11/07/1991Bradford SouthSigned
Harry Barnes11/07/1991North East DerbyshireSigned
Dennis Skinner12/07/1991BolsoverSigned
Martin Redmond15/07/1991Don ValleySigned
Alice Mahon15/07/1991HalifaxSigned
Bill Michie15/07/1991Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Ronnie Campbell15/07/1991Blyth ValleySigned
Jimmy Dunnachie15/07/1991Glasgow, PollokSigned
Eddie Loyden16/07/1991Liverpool, GarstonSigned
James Wray16/07/1991Glasgow ProvanSigned
John Battle16/07/1991Leeds WestSigned
Norman Godman16/07/1991Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
John Cummings16/07/1991EasingtonSigned
Tom Cox16/07/1991TootingSigned
Keith Bradley16/07/1991Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Alan Meale16/07/1991MansfieldSigned
Ian McCartney16/07/1991MakerfieldSigned
Terry Lewis16/07/1991WorsleySigned
Robert Parry16/07/1991Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Ken Livingstone23/07/1991Brent EastSigned
Eric Illsley24/07/1991Barnsley CentralSigned
Audrey Wise24/07/1991PrestonSigned
Mildred Gordon14/10/1991Bow and PoplarSigned

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