Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I move the amendments tabled in my name. I have to say that many will call into question whether it's a good use of the National Assembly's time for us to be holding an opposition debate on foreign affairs and matters that are non-devolved, particularly at a time when Wales is facing huge domestic challenges that demand our attention. Many will also find it to be extremely distasteful that we're debating a motion today that sympathises with the leader and founding member of a prescribed terrorist organisation, especially given the dreadful attacks that have been perpetrated in Christchurch and Utrecht in recent days. 

As a person who has visited the Kurdistan region of Iraq just last year, and has Kurdish friends from Turkey and Iraq, I do recognise that there is a desire amongst many Kurdish people for an independent Kurdish state. But regardless of whether people in this Chamber support that aim or not, I would hope that we can all be united in our condemnation of the use of terror to achieve that goal. 

Now, I note that the motion before us refers to the ongoing hunger strike by Imam Sis, which was initiated to protest at the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan and to raise concern about Öcalan's human rights. I do not know Mr Sis, but from my research I gather he's a very sincere person, a very passionate man who believes in a future independent Kurdish state that values all of its citizens and upholds their rights. And I, like others in this Chamber, am moved by his plight, and I'm very concerned for his health, his well-being and his welfare, but I'm also very concerned about what appears to be the blind loyalty among some of the hunger-strikers to Abdullah Öcalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is better known as the PKK. He was, of course, arrested back in 1999, as we've already heard, and he was arrested on terror and other related offences and has been in prison since. 

Now, in addition to being a proscribed terrorist organisation by the UK, the PKK is also considered to be a terrorist organisation by the EU—