The issue focused on just what role the government should play in preventing a legal conflict between Britain and Turkey over a war of words over the number of deaths in an attempted coup in the country.


The minister of defence and the attorney general refused to say that they supported the ruling of the country's top court that a state of emergency might be imposed for several months until a possible EU summit in March to discuss the crisis.


In the hearing of the main political parties, senior members of the coalition