PKK / YPG supporters protest against anti-terrorism memorandum in Sweden
Supporters of the terrorist group PKK and its Syrian branch YPG demonstrated in the Swedish capital Stockholm on Saturday to protest against the recently implemented anti-terrorism memorandum between Turkey, Sweden and Finland.
The participants wore banners and symbols for the terrorist group, as well as posters of its convicted main terrorist Abdullah Öcalan.
Supporters of the terrorist group called on the government to annul the memorandum signed at the NATO summit in Madrid earlier this week.
At the same time, another group of terrorist supporters also gathered at Mollevangstorget in Malmö’s southern city.
Sweden and Finland formally applied to join the alliance in May, a decision spurred on by Russia’s war against Ukraine.
But Turkey, a longtime member of the alliance, objected to the membership offerings and criticized the countries for tolerating and even supporting terrorist groups.
Ahead of the NATO summit in Madrid, Turkey, Finland and Sweden signed an agreement on Tuesday after four-way talks in the Spanish capital.
The agreement allows the two Nordic countries to become members of NATO, but conditions them to take action against Turkey’s concerns about terrorism and to lift an arms embargo on Ankara.
Following the agreement, NATO formally invited the two Nordic countries to join the 30-member military alliance.
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.