Following the NATO memorandum signed by three countries, which President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan described as a “diplomatic victory”, Sweden announced that it would extradite 73 terrorists. In the last period, for the first time, a step came from Sweden in this context. The government decided to extradite a person wanted for fraud to Turkey.
SWEDEN WAS UNREGISTERED
After weeks of tension, Turkey gave the green light after the parties agreed to the NATO membership of Sweden and Finland, which it claims to host PKK militants.
As part of the agreement, Turkey gave Sweden a list of the criminals it wanted extradition. After Ankara sent the list, it expressed its discomfort because the return of those on the list did not begin.
In Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, sympathizers of the terrorist organization YPG/PKK protested the country’s agreement with Turkey.
FIRST CRIMINAL EXTRADITION
The extradition of this 30-year-old man wanted for fraud in Turkey will be the first publicly announced extradition after the agreement.
Speaking to Reuters, Swedish Minister of Justice Morgan Johansson said, “This is a normal routine matter. The person in question is a Turkish citizen and was convicted of fraud in Turkey in 2013 and 2016.”
“The Supreme Court has examined this matter and has concluded that there is no circumstance that prevents the extradition of the person,” Johansson said.
A spokesperson for the Swedish Ministry of Justice did not answer the question of whether the person was on the list submitted by Turkey.
Swedish television channel SVT, which first reported the news, said that the person was sentenced to 14 years in prison for credit or debit card fraud in Turkey.
SVT reported that the person imprisoned in Sweden since last year did not accept the accusations, that he converted to Christianity, refused to join the military, and that he was given this sentence because he was of Kurdish origin.
(Reuters)