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British MPs discuss Turkey and asylum
seekers with KRG and Kurdish community
25.10.2007
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October
25, 2007
LONDON, UK,-- Two British MPs met with
representatives of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional
Government (KRG) and the Kurdish community in
Britain on Wednesday to discuss the threat of a
Turkish incursion into Iraq and the issue of failed
asylum seekers in Britain .
Members of parliament Sarah McCarthy-Fry and Dave
Anderson, and Gary Kent, representing the Labour
party group ‘Labour Friends of Iraq’ met with Bayan
Sami Abdul Rahman, the KRG’s High Representative to
the UK, and members of the Kurdish community in
Portsmouth, a town on the south coast of England.
The MPs expressed their concern over the Turkish
parliament’s recent decision to allow military
incursions into Kurdistan in Iraq . Mr Anderson has
tabled a motion in parliament condemning Turkish
shelling of villages inside the Kurdistan Region in
Iraq and expressing concern that a Turkish incursion
could jeopordise the economy of the Kurdistan
Region, the most secure and prosperous part of Iraq
where Turkish trade and investment has been
instrumental to economic growth. |
British MPs met with representatives of the Iraqi
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the Kurdish
community in Britain. Photo KRG |
He supported the KRG’s call on Turkey to find a
lasting political solution to the issue of the PKK
rather than engage in a military action.
Mr Anderson, who is MP for Blaydon in the north of
England, said he and fellow MPs who are supportive
of Kurdistan in Iraq would call for a debate on this
subject in parliament.
The meeting took place on the day that Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met British Prime
Minister Gordon Brown in London . Mr Brown urged Mr
Erdogan to find a diplomatic solution to this
problem.
The meeting of the Kurdish community in parliament
also discussed the forced return of failed asylum
seekers to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and other
problems of the community.
Ms McCarthy-Fry, MP for Portsmouth North, said she
would seek information from the British Home Office
on the number of those who might be affected by the
policy of forced returns and the number of Kurdish
immigrants in the UK .
Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, the KRG’s High
Representative to the UK, said, “This meeting was
significant and timely, enabling us to present the
concerns of the Kurdish community in Britain and the
Kurdistan Regional Government on the situation in
Turkey and Britain’s policy on asylum seekers. Both
MPs expressed their support on these important
issues.”
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