Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has challenged the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Charlie Flanagan, to urgently raise the case if HDP MP, Faysal Sariyildiz, who has had his passport revoked by the Turkish Government<\/p>\n
Speaking in the D\u00e1il, Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe TD said:<\/p>\n
\u201cLast week I was due to meet with the HDP MP, Faysal Sariyildiz, but he is currently stranded in Brussels because his passport was revoked by the Turkish authorities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe HDP is the third largest party in the Turkish Parliament and they have been targeted by the Turkish Government due to their success, and their progressive and left wing policies.<\/p>\n
\u201cFaysal was carrying out important legal and diplomatic work for the HDP and has been travelling to European capitals detailing the mass killing of Kurdish civilians by the Turkish military in his home city of Cizre. The cancelling of his passport would appear to be a crude attempt to silence that work.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Turkish security forces sealed off the Kurdish majority city of Cizre and implemented a siege from December 2015 to February 2016. The city had limited access to water and food and many of the injured were prohibited to receive professional medical treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cAccording to independent news reports, the level of damage to the city was comparable to the brutal siege of Kobani by Da\u2019esh.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn April 2016, the Turkish Human Rights Association watchdog submitted a report to the United Nations detailing the mass killing of over 120 Kurdish civilians in Cizre.\u00a0 Faysal was a witness to the mass killing of civilians and the gross violations of human rights.<\/p>\n
\u201cI called for the Minister for Foreign Affairs to raise Faysal\u2019s case directly with the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs must call in the Turkish Ambassador to explain Ireland\u2019s complete condemnation of the imprisoned of 11 HDP MPs and the two HDP Co-Chairs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has challenged the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Charlie Flanagan, to urgently raise the case if HDP MP, Faysal Sariyildiz, who has had his passport revoked by the Turkish Government Speaking in the D\u00e1il, Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe TD said: \u201cLast week I was due to meet with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,134,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-kurds","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}