In the aftermath of the signing of a memorandum with Ankara, the Swedish government is criticized on its left flank for having bowed to Turkey.
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Sweden “did not give in to Erdogan”, hammered, Wednesday, June 29, the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ann Linde, from Madrid, while many voices, especially on the left, castigated the agreement, signed The day before, with Turkey and Finland, opening the door of NATO to the two Nordic countries. The head of diplomacy is requested to come and explain himself before the deputies, upon his return from Spain.
In Parliament, the most virulent reactions come from the Green Party and the left party, allies of the social democratic government and opposed to the Swedish candidacy for NATO. Before the membership request was formalized, on May 18, the two teams had notably warned against the risks of joining Turkey. Today, they see their fears confirmed.
“We are moving from a tradition of work to maintain a situation where we bow before an authoritarian regime, which has such a long list of human rights violations on its conscience”, S The Greens’ spokesperson, Märta Stenevi is insurgent. Left party deputy Hakan Svenneling believes that the agreement with Ankara “silenced the voice of Sweden for Kurdish rights in the region, but also for democracy and human rights in Turkey”.
The Swedish Society of Peace and Arbitration, an NGO, does not spare its criticisms either: “By yielding to the requirements, the Swedish government allows Turkey, an undemocratic regime which does not respect the rights of the Man and who violated international law by his illegal military assault against Syria, to control the Swedish foreign policy, “denounces Gabriella Irsten, one of his officials.
extraditions rejected for two years
Among the points that arouse the most fears: the commitment of Helsinki and Stockholm to process “in -depth” the requests for extraditions of people suspected of terrorism by Ankara, “taking into account information, evidence and information provided by Turkey “. Since Madrid, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson assured that her government would follow “Swedish legislation and international conventions” and recalled that Sweden never extracted its nationals. “If we do not devote ourselves to a terrorist activity, there is no reason to be worried,” she observed.
At the same time, in Ankara, the Minister of Justice, Bekir Bozdag, announced that his government, “as part of the new agreement,” was going to ask Finland the extradition of “six PKK members [the party Kurdistan workers, classified as a terrorist by Turkey and Sweden] and six members of Fetö [the movement of the preacher Fethullah Gülen whom Ankara designates as terrorist] “, and to Sweden, that of” ten members of Fetö and eleven of PKK “.
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