The police confirm to TV4 Nyheterna that two people were deported to Turkey on Friday.
Turkish media reports on one of the people – a man who came to Sweden in 2015 and sought asylum. He is then said to have been sentenced to six years and ten months in prison in Turkey for association with the terrorist organization PKK.
The man’s asylum case was finally decided in 2021. When he was deported, he had been in custody at the Migration Agency in West Sweden for some time.
In Turkey, much attention has been focused on the fact that the country’s government, with President Erdogan at the head, publicly demanded that those they call terrorists be extradited from Sweden. A requirement that, in various ways, is linked as a condition for approving Sweden’s NATO application. In the agreement between Sweden, Finland and Turkey, it is explicitly stated that the countries undertake to counter the PKK and their activities.