Turkey Indicates Sweden’s Blocked Extradition Hinders NATO Process

  • Sweden’s top court blocked extradition of Bulent Kenes
  • Turkey is stalling ratification of Swedish, Finnish NATO entry

Mevlut Cavusoglu 

Photographer: Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images

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Turkey indicated Sweden’s rejection of its extradition demand is negative to NATO’s enlargement, which Turkey continues to stall.

Sweden’s Supreme Court on Monday ruled against the extradition of a former newspaper editor to Turkey, prompting Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to call the move “a very negative development.”