Sweden extradites outlawed PKK member to Turkiye: report

ISTANBUL, 04 December 2022, (TON): State media reported “Sweden has extradited a convicted member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party to Turkiye as Ankara presses Stockholm for further steps in return for its membership in NATO.”

Mahmut Tat, who was sentenced to six years and 10 months in jail for PKK membership in Turkiye, fled to Sweden in 2015 but his asylum request was rejected.

Tat arrived in Istanbul on Friday night having been detained by Swedish police, the Anadolu news agency reported.

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