In an article published by Aftonbladet, the largest newspaper in Sweden, three journalists-writers and a former minister gave advice to Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson before his visit to Turkey.
Ulf Kristersson, who was recently elected Prime Minister, announced last week that he was scheduled to pay an official visit to Turkey. Kristersson will seek a green light from Ankara for his country’s NATO membership. The Turkish state is blackmailing Sweden into extraditing Kurdish dissidents in exchange for its approval for "NATO membership".
Former Minister Pierre Schori, Kurdish writer-journalist Kurdo Baksi, writer and Editor-in-Chief of “Dala-Demokraten” Newspaper Göran Greider and Editor-in- Chief of “Dagens Arbete” Newspaper and a nun, Helle Klein, wrote a joint article for Aftonbladet newspaper.
“Sweden's new Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson, will travel to Turkey to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Sweden's application for NATO membership will constitute the main agenda of this meeting since Turkey has veto power. In his meeting with Erdogan, Kristersson will also have a golden opportunity to tell him what a real democracy is,” the article titled ‘Kristersson, remind Erdogan what real democracy is!’, read.
The article stated that the Swedish Prime Minister should explain four basic points to Erdogan and to the Swedish people:
1- Prime Minister Kristersson and Foreign Minister Tobias Billström should question why democratic politicians including Selahattin Demirtaş, former co-chair of Swedish Social Democratic Party’s sister party and Turkey's third largest party, HDP, are imprisoned in Turkey.
2- Kristersson should express clearly his opposition to Turkey’s new plan to attack the Kurdish areas in North Syria announced by Erdogan, as well as the repeated military threats against Greece.
3- Turkey's pro-government media outlets should immediately stop spying on the Swedish Turkish journalists who enjoy their civic liberties in Sweden.
4- The Erdogan regime must immediately put an end to its smear campaign against Sweden's Kurds and Kurdish-Swedes in the run-up to the parliamentary and presidential elections to be held in Turkey next year. Sweden should never promote a witch hunt against innocent Kurds, as it did after the murder of Olof Palme.”
