Sweden’s attitude to “protect” terrorists
ANKARA
Sweden has an approach to “protect” terrorists because it has either rejected or failed to respond to Turkey’s request for the extradition of fugitive terrorist group members, Anadolu Agency has been told.
According to sources, Sweden refused extradition and granted citizenship to Mehmet Sirac Bilgin, Aysel Alhan, Aziz Turan, Ragip Zarakolu and Halef Tak, who are all affiliated with the terrorist group PKK / YPG.
Requests for the extradition of FETO members, including Harun Tokak, a senior member of the terrorist group and its so-called Israeli representative, and Bulent Kenes, a former editor of FETO’s English-speaking mouthpiece Today’s Zaman, were not answered either.
In the same way, Stockholm never returned to Turkey’s demand for the extradition of FETO members Levent Kenez and Yilmaz Ayten, who had been granted asylum in Sweden after living in Afghanistan for several years.
In its more than 35-year-old terrorist campaign against Turkey, the PKK – listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union – has been responsible for the deaths of more than 40,000 people, including women, children and infants. YPG is the PKK’s Syrian offshoot.
FETO and its US-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup on July 15, 2016 in Turkey, killing 251 people and injuring 2,734.
Ankara accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, especially the military, police and judiciary.
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