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Release Of Kamuran Y

EDM number 68 in 2016-17, proposed by Chris Stephens on 23/05/2016.
Categorised under the topics of Asia, Ethnic groups, International politics and government and Middle East.

That this House notes that Kamuran Yüksek of the Democratic Regions Party was in the UK on 25 April 2016 addressing a meeting in the House of Commons at the launch of the trade union Freedom for Ocalan Campaign; further notes that he spoke eloquently on the need for a peaceful settlement to the Kurdish question and expressed similar views in the Kurdish media; notes that on the evening of 10 May 2016 Mr Yüksek was taken away by Turkish police following an arrest warrant by the Public Prosecutor in Diyarbakir, while his house and office were raided by the police; believes the motivation for Mr Yüksek's detention is purely political; notes that he is the latest in a long list of journalists, lawyers, trade unionists, politicians, academics and human rights defenders who have been incarcerated for having the temerity to criticise the authoritarian regime of President Erdogan who has unleashed a genocidal war against the Kurdish population; believes the behaviour of the Turkish authorities to be outrageous and unacceptable; and calls for the immediate release of Kamuran Yüksek.

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

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Chris Stephens23/05/2016Glasgow South WestScottish National PartyProposed
Jim Shannon23/05/2016StrangfordDUPSeconded
Mark Durkan23/05/2016FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Natalie McGarry24/05/2016Glasgow EastScottish National PartySeconded
Paul Monaghan24/05/2016Caithness, Sutherland and Easter RossScottish National PartySeconded
Liz Saville Roberts24/05/2016Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSeconded
Angus MacNeil24/05/2016Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Carol Monaghan25/05/2016Glasgow North WestScottish National PartySigned
Marion Fellows25/05/2016Motherwell and WishawScottish National PartySigned
Martyn Day25/05/2016Linlithgow and East FalkirkScottish National PartySigned
Alan Brown25/05/2016Kilmarnock and LoudounScottish National PartySigned
Hywel Williams25/05/2016ArfonPlaid CymruSigned
Mary Glindon25/05/2016North TynesideLabourSigned
George Kerevan25/05/2016East LothianScottish National PartySigned
Alan Meale25/05/2016MansfieldLabourSigned
Angela Crawley26/05/2016Lanark and Hamilton EastScottish National PartySigned
Chris Law26/05/2016Dundee WestScottish National PartySigned
Michael Weir26/05/2016AngusScottish National PartySigned
Kelvin Hopkins26/05/2016Luton NorthLabourSigned
Tasmina Sheikh06/06/2016Ochil and South PerthshireScottish National PartySigned
Owen Thompson06/06/2016MidlothianScottish National PartySigned
Roger Godsiff08/06/2016Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
Marie Rimmer13/06/2016St Helens South and WhistonLabourSigned
Kate Hollern13/06/2016BlackburnLabourSigned
Alex Salmond13/06/2016Signed

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