Turkey today sent fresh requests to Sweden and Finland to extradite people Ankara considers terrorists, after agreeing on the Nordic countries’ NATO accession efforts, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said.
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.
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