Syria

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 5:10 pm on 3 September 2012.

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Photo of William Hague William Hague The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 5:10, 3 September 2012

I absolutely agree that this does not provide political cover for that, and I have not heard any suggestion from the Foreign Minister of Turkey that it would do so. I am concerned about a series of clashes on the Turkish border involving serious loss of life, including among the Turkish armed forces, in a number of recent incidents. I have expressed our condolences to Turkey on those incidents, and this underlines the need to tackle the situation in all the ways that I have described.