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NATO: Sweden condemns the action of deputies posing with the PKK flag

2022-07-06T16:41:59.772Z


The Swedish Prime Minister deplored on Wednesday July 6 the action of deputies of a left-wing party who posed with the flag of the Kurdish PKK, in...


The Swedish Prime Minister deplored on Wednesday July 6 the action of deputies from a left-wing party who posed with the flag of the Kurdish PKK, at a time when Stockholm is trying to coax Turkey into joining NATO.

"

The PKK is on the list of terrorist organizations, not only in Sweden but also in the EU, and posing with this kind of flag is extremely inappropriate

," said Magdalena Andersson in an interview with the TT agency.

PKK confirmed terrorist by Stockholm and Helsinki

Sweden and Finland signed an agreement last Tuesday with Turkey which immediately lifted Ankara's veto on the entry of the two Nordic countries into the alliance.

The text confirms that Stockholm and Helsinki consider the PKK to be a terrorist organization and that the two capitals undertake not to support various groups hated by Ankara, including the Kurdish armed movement YPG in Syria.

Sweden and Finland also undertake to study “

promptly and thoroughly

” Turkish extradition requests.

The deal has sparked concern in Sweden's large Kurdish community and criticism from Sweden's left-wing parties, which accuse the government of giving in too much to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The action by several parliamentarians from the left-wing party took place on Tuesday during a week of summer schools for Swedish political parties on the island of Gotland, where they are seen posing with PKK flags, but also YPG and the Kurdish women's armed movement YPJ.

MP Lorena Delgado Varas, one of those who posed with the flags, lamented Stockholm's hypocrisy towards Kurdish groups in Syria who fought the Islamic State jihadist organization.

Now they are turning around, to get closer to dictator Erdogan.

All this to join NATO

, ”she wrote on Twitter.

Hostile to joining NATO, the Left Party (ex-Communist) is a parliamentary supporter of Magdalena Andersson, without being part of the government.

While Turkey has given the green light to the first phase of Sweden and Finland's membership application, the Turkish Parliament still has to ratify this entry.

Read alsoNATO: no need for reinforcements in Sweden and Finland

Ankara warned that this ratification would be conditional on compliance with the commitments made by Stockholm and Helsinki.

President Erdogan said last week that Sweden had "

promised

" to extradite 73 "

terrorists

" living on its soil and wanted by Ankara, even if no such commitment appears in the agreement signed on the sidelines of the summit in NATO in Madrid.

Source: lefigaro

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