Turkey is calling on Finland and Sweden to extradite 33 people belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Fethullah Gülen (FETO) whom it considers terrorists, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said yesterday.
According to the statement, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) leaders yesterday agreed to formally invite Finland and Sweden to join the alliance after Turkey struck an agreement with the two Scandinavian countries to voice its objections to their membership.
“Today we decided to invite Finland and Sweden to join NATO and agreed to sign accession protocols,” the alliance said in a statement at the Madrid summit.
Turkey, a member of the alliance since 1952, has blocked the two countries from joining, specifically accusing Stockholm and Helsinki of harboring PKK activists.
