Turkey: Ankara’s new requests to Finland and Sweden to extradite people

THE Turkey today sent new requests to Sweden and the Finland to extradite people whom Ankara considers terrorists, after the agreement on the efforts to join the Nordic countries in NATOsaid Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag.

Turkey had opposed efforts by Stockholm and Helsinki to join NATO, with Ankara accusing the two countries of supporting Kurdish fighters and others Turkey considers terrorists, as well as an arms embargo and extradition requests that have not been met.

Last week, the three countries signed an agreement under which Ankara lifts its veto, while candidate countries pledge not to support the Kurdish PKK and YPG armed groups or the US-based network of Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen.

Ankara claims that the Gülen network orchestrated the 2016 coup attempt and calls it a terrorist organization with the acronym FETO.

“As part of the agreement signed between Turkey, Sweden and Finland at the last NATO summit, a monitoring committee was established,” Bozdag said in a televised interview with HaberGlobal.

In the text signed last week, Finland and Sweden agreed to “examine (Turkey’s) outstanding requests to deport or extradite terrorism suspects, expeditiously and thoroughly…in accordance with the European Convention on Extradition.”

“Consequently, today we renewed some previously rejected requests and reminded them of some requests that had not been answered,” Bozdag said.

Source: News Beast

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