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The Grand Turk
Turkey jails outlawed PKK member extradited from Sweden
2022-12-04
See here for Sweden’s extradition
. [AlAhram] A Ottoman Turkish court on Saturday tossed in the slammer
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
a convicted member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) a day after Sweden extradited him, state media reported.

After Russia invaded Ukraine, Finland and Sweden in May dropped decades of military non-alignment and sought to join NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
. That requires a consensus within the US-led defence alliance, but The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
and Hungary have so far not ratified their membership. Turkey has demanded the Nordic countries take a tougher stance on Kurdish groups it deems "terrorists" in exchange for its backing.

Mahmut Tat was sentenced to more than six years in jail over being a member of the PKK in Turkey. He fled to Sweden in 2015, but Stockholm rejected his asylum request.

Tat arrived in Istanbul on Friday night after Sweden detained and extradited him, the Anadolu news agency reported.

Ottoman Turkish police arrested him soon after arriving at Istanbul airport and referred him to a court on Saturday, which sent him to jail, the news agency said.
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