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Sweden jails Kurd for financing terrorism after Turkey calls for crackdown

BBC News

By Paul Kirby

July 6, 2023

A Swedish court has jailed a Kurdish man for four-and-a-half years for crimes including attempting to finance terrorism.

It is the first time Sweden’s updated terror laws have been used in a case involving the Kurdish militant PKK.

Turkey has long called on Stockholm to crack down on Kurdish separatists.

Sweden’s bid to join Nato has been delayed principally by Turkey’s demand that it extradites dozens of people it views as terrorists.

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