According to the official Anadolu news agency, Mahmut Tat was sentenced in Turkey to 6.5 years in prison as a member of the PKK
A member of the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, who had been convicted in Turkey, deported from Sweden, and returned overnight to Istanbul, Turkish media reported.
According to the official Anadolu news agency, Mahmut Tat had been sentenced in Turkey to 6.5 years in prison as a member of the PKK, an organization considered a terrorist organization by Ankara and the European Union.
“After he was arrested by the Swedish police and taken to the detention center in Meldal, he was flown to Turkey,” the agency reported.
According to the pro-government newspaper Sabah and the private television network NTV, Tat was taken to an Istanbul court today.
Anadolu reported that the man, who arrived in Sweden in 2015 to escape the execution of his sentence, had submitted an asylum request there but it was “rejected”.
The fate of some Kurdish nationals of Turkey who have been exiled or taken refuge in Sweden and, to a lesser extent, Finland, is at the center of discussions with Ankara so that the two Nordic countries to become members of NATO.
Turkey has blocked the expansion of the Atlantic alliance since May, demanding the expulsion of many of them, who are accused of being sympathizers or fighters of Kurdish movements classified as “terrorist organizations” in Turkey or of being associated with the movement of cleric Gülen, who is brought by the authorities. orchestrated the 2016 coup attempt.
The arrival of a new government in Sweden has recently broadened those exchanges, however, and this week Turkey’s foreign minister said the two countries had taken “positive steps”.
“The new government in Sweden is more determined than the previous one and we welcome that,” said the minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
“They made legislative changes and all this is positive progress,” Cavusoglu said at a press conference in Bucharest, on the sidelines of a meeting of foreign ministers of NATO member countries.
Read the News today and get the latest news.
Follow Skai.gr on Google News and be the first to know all the news.
With a wealth of experience honed over 4+ years in journalism, I bring a seasoned voice to the world of news. Currently, I work as a freelance writer and editor, always seeking new opportunities to tell compelling stories in the field of world news.
