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Kurdish refugee in Sweden at risk of deportation to Turkey

A 26-year-old Kurdish refugee in Sweden is expected to be deported to Turkey as a result of an agreement signed between Ankara, Stockholm, and Helsinki in June for the Nordic expansion of NATO.

11:03 am 20/08/2022
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Kurdish refugee in Sweden at risk of deportation to Turkey
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Sweden has detained a 26-year-old Kurdish refugee to be deported to Turkey as part of a NATO deal agreed between Ankara, Stockholm, and Helsinki in June, Swedish media reported on Friday.

The trilateral memorandum signed in June clears the path for Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO in return for the two Nordic countries tightening anti-terrorism legislation and lifting arms embargoes on Turkey. The deal was agreed after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had threatened to block the two countries’ bids over Ankara’s accusations that they supported the People’s Defence Units (YPG) in northern Syria, which it views as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) which is also deemed a terrorist group by the United States and European Union.

As a part of the non-binding agreement signed in Madrid, Stockholm and Helsinki agreed to examine Ankara’s extradition requests over alleged terrorist links “expeditiously and thoroughly”.

Zınar Bozkurt, a 26-year-old Kurdish refugee who has been detained by Swedish authorities days before a scheduled meeting between three countries on 26 August, might be facing the risk of being extradited to Turkey as a result of this memorandum, Yeni Özgür Politika reported on Friday.

Bozkurt, who applied for political asylum in Sweden in 2016, was not included in a list of more than 30 individuals submitted by Turkey to the two Nordic countries for extradition. However, whether he is added to a larger updated list submitted later by Ankara remains unknown.

Bozkurt was questioned by the Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) in 2018 for attending anti-Turkey demonstrations in Sweden. Two years later the Swedish authorities denied his asylum request on the grounds that the Kurdish man posed a “security threat” to the Nordic country.  

Bozkurt, who was detained on Thursday, told Dagens ETC that he was expecting to be deported to Turkey. His lawyer said that they applied to EU authorities to prevent Bozkurt’s deportation.

Many users on Twitter demanded Sweden stop the deportation using the hashtags “#StopDeportingZinarBozkurt” and “#FreedomForZinarMehmetBozkurt” and tagging Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and Foreign Minister Ann Linde. 

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