Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The HDP is the third largest party in the Turkish Parliament. I was to meet Mr. Faysal Sarıyıldız last week. He was travelling around different European capitals. I think he was to meet Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. He did not arrive because his passport was revoked. The worrying thing about this case is the fact that he was travelling around European capitals detailing the mass killings of Kurdish civilians by the Turkish military in his home city of Cizre. Revoking his passport seems to be a crude attempt to silence that work. The Turkish security forces sealed off Cizre and denied access to food and water and 120 people were killed. People compared it to KobanÌ after the attack by Daesh. What can the Irish Government do about this? I heard what the Minister said about what has been happening in Europe but what can we do as an independent country?

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