Terrorist YPG/PKK supporters hold illegal protest in Sweden
Sympathizers of the terrorist group PKK and its Syrian offshoot YPG staged another unauthorized demonstration in the Swedish capital Stockholm on Friday, despite the country’s leaders saying four days earlier that they “better understood” Turkey’s concerns about terrorism and that they had “changed”. “
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson repeated on Tuesday again that it takes the terms of the trilateral memorandum of understanding on their NATO accession signed with Turkey and Finland in June “very seriously.”
Terrorist supporters displayed a PKK banner over a bridge on the city’s Kungsgatan and chanted slogans praising the terrorist organization.
Video footage later posted on a social media account linked to the terror group showed preparations underway to hold a planned large-scale demonstration on January 21 in the Swedish capital.
Sweden and Helsinki reached an agreement with Ankara in June, which requires them not to provide support to the PKK and its offshoots, or to the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ), the group behind the defeated 2016 coup in Türkiye. Ankara has also demanded the extradition of terror suspects.
Turkish officials, including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, have warned that Türkiye will not give the nod to their membership until its concerns are addressed.
Kristersson and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg recently visited Turkey to discuss the membership bids, which require unanimous approval from the alliance’s 30 members.
In its more than 40-year campaign of terror 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 over 40,000 people, including women, children and infants.