Published:
Jul 6, 2022 7:33 PM
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Ankara asks Stockholm and Helsinki to hand over members of various Turkish organizations, including the Gülen movement and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
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The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent letters to the governments of Sweden and Finland to remind them of their commitment to extradite “terrorists” living in their territories, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag revealed during a press conference on Wednesday. broadcast on the channel TRT News.
Bozdag explained that the letters have been sent this day, stressing that they remind Stockholm and Helsinki that Ankara is waiting for an answer to their extradition requests.
In this sense, he explained that Turkey has already formally requested the delivery by both nations of members belonging to the Gülen movement, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C). ), but that, for the moment, has not received a response.
Likewise, the Turkish Minister of Justice defended that the extradition requests comply with international agreements and between the countries involved, specifying that Ankara has established a monitoring committee made up of experts in the fields of justice, intelligence and security to supervise and follow the process. .
Condition to enter NATO
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Last May, Sweden and Finland formally applied to join NATO, but Turkey refused to endorse the membership, alleging that the two Nordic countries harbor members of organizations that Ankara considers terrorists on their territories.
However, on June 28 the foreign ministers of the three nations signed a memorandum of understanding under which Turkey gave its go-ahead for both applicants to become members of the Atlantic Alliance.
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, assured that Stockholm has already extradited to his country “three or four terrorists” of the 73 requested, although he stressed that this is not enough. He also celebrated that the PKK, the Gülen movement and the Popular Protection Units (UPP) have been listed as terrorist groups in NATO records for the first time.
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