Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said this Wednesday that the country plans to request the extradition of 33 terrorist suspects currently in custody. Sweden D Finland after the memorandum signed by the parties within the framework of the summit NATO pave the way for Stockholm and Helsinki to join the Alliance.
At a press conference, the minister specified that both countries would be notified of these requests and explained that Ankara would require Finland extradite six members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and six other alleged members of the movement of influential cleric Fethullah Gülen, whom Turkey accuses of masterminding the 2016 coup attempt.
Similarly, the country will seek the extradition of eleven more members of the PKK, which Ankara considers a terrorist organization, and ten members of FETO, a name used by the Turkish authorities to refer to the vagueness of organizations and people associated with Gülen. from Sweden.
Agreements with an Uncertain Future
The minister’s remarks came a day after the three countries signed a tripartite agreement under which Ankara lifts its veto on accession. Helsinki D Stockholm to the Atlantic Alliance. At the same time, he stressed that “Turkey is ready to comply with the points included in the memorandum for the future.”
“The memorandum is important and shows how the disposition Turkey from the point of view of foreign policy, it has positive results,” the Turkish minister said, noting that Turkey “will seek the full implementation of the agreement.”
The leaders of the three countries held a quadripartite meeting in Madrid on Tuesday with the participation of the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenbergon the eve of the Atlantic Alliance summit in the Spanish capital.
Stoltenberg thanked the parties for “the spirit with which they approached the negotiations” and stressed that within the Atlantic Alliance “it has always been demonstrated that differences do not matter” because countries can “sit down at the negotiating table and find common ground and solutions.”
(According to Europe Press)
Source: RPP
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