Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of public interest that requires urgent consideration, namely, the need to allow Members and the Minister for Foreign Affairs to respond to the horrific attacks on a peaceful women's rights demonstration in Istanbul by the Turkish police, who beat and detained almost 60 demonstrators, and to allow the House to send a clear message on International Women's Day that such actions, which suppressed a democratic campaign for women's equality, are totally unacceptable on the part of the police force of a country that is a candidate for membership of the European Union.

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