A demonstration against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Sweden’s Nato candidacy organized by the Kurdish Democratic Society Center in Stockholm, Sweden on Monday. TT NEWS AGENCY/ via Portal
ANALYZE – In the election campaign for his re-election, the Turkish president exploited his dispute with Stockholm and blocked his entry into the alliance.
In a few days, the stalemate between Turkey and Sweden over their NATO accession turned into a diplomatic impasse that no one knows how to get out of today. In order to ratify the accession of Sweden and Finland, which were snatched from their neutrality by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ankara had been calling for a hardening of these two countries’ policies towards their Kurdish immigration for several months. In particular, Erdogan has asked Stockholm for the extradition of Kurdish militants it considers “terrorists” affiliated with the PKK or its Syrian branch, the PYD, or people alleged to have participated in the 2016 coup attempt. Sweden and Finland have made concessions, but Stockholm is not enough in the eyes of the Turkish president, whose authoritarian methods of power are alien to the demands of democracies, particularly on issues of the judiciary and freedom of expression…
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