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Sweden rejects four extradition requests from Turkey - report

FILE PHOTO: Journalist Bulent Kenes poses for a photo in Stockholm, Sweden December 19, 2022. Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency/via REUTERS

The Swedish government will not extradite four people sought by Turkey, which says they are connected to a U.S.-based cleric it accuses of being behind a coup attempt in 2016, news agency TT reported on Thursday, without citing sources.

The extradition requests were made in 2019 and 2020, before Sweden and Finland signed a three-way agreement with Turkey aimed at overcoming Ankara's objections to the two Nordic countries joining the NATO military alliance.

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