Ankara’s request comes just one day after the signing of the memorandum signed at the NATO Summit.
THE Turkey will ask Sweden and Finland the edition of 33 persons belonging to PKK and Fetö Fethullah Gulen, organizations that Ankara considers “terrorist”, said Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag.
The request comes the day after a memorandum was signed between the three countries paving the way for Sweden and Finland to join NATO.
“Under the new agreement, we will ask Finland to extradite six PKK members and six Fetö members. And from Sweden the extradition of ten members of Fetö and eleven members of the PKK “, said the minister, according to Turkish media.
Among other things, the agreement provides full cooperation of the two countries with Turkey in the fight against the PKK and non-support of the PYD / YPG (s.s. Syrian Kurds) and the Gulenists – FETO.
However, as SKAI’s correspondent in Turkey, Manolis Kostidis, reported was not accepted Ankara’s request for the extradition of dozens of people to Turkey.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is considered a terrorist organization by Ankara and its western allies.
The Fetö is the acronym for the movement founded by him preacher Fethullah Gulen, who was a mentor of Tayyip Erdogan. He lives in the United States, and Erdogan says he blames him, among other things, for the failed 2016 coup attempt.
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