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Sweden to extradite self-proclaimed PKK supporter to Turkey amid NATO bid

Activists of the "Alliance against NATO" network carry flags with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) logo at a demonstration for free speech in Stockholm, Sweden on June 4, 2023. © Maja Suslin, AFP

The Swedish government decided Monday to extradite a Turkish citizen resident in Sweden who had been convicted in 2013 of drug crime in Turkey. 

The move came as NATO-member Turkey continued to hold up Sweden’s bid to join the military alliance. 

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