Swiss State Radio-Television (SRF) reported that the Turkish government has applied to the Bern administration since 2016, demanding the prosecution of some 30 people it accused of making propaganda for the PKK or insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan through posts they shared on social networks.

SRF published a news quoting the Swiss Ministry of Justice titled "Erdogan's long arm in Switzerland". Most of the news was dedicated to underline that Turkey's requests were rejected by the government in Bern.

The Ministry emphasized that the PKK is not a banned organization in Switzerland in the reasons for the rejection to accept the Turkish government’s requests, and added that there were movements to change the law that allows to punish whoever "insults heads of state and governments".

Indeed, the Legal Commission of the Ministry of Justice began to change the law focusing on the removal of the article in the constitution that makes it a crime "insulting heads of state and governments" also in order to prevent the complaints of the Erdogan regime. Some European countries, beginning with Germany, have already passed a law preventing foreign political parties from making propaganda in their countries, and this penalised the AKP which tried to hold rallies before the elections in Turkey.

The increasing activities of MIT in Switzerland, like in other European countries, is also a cause of concern. The Attorney General of Switzerland in 2018 unveiled plans to kidnap a businessman. The plan was allegedly being prepared by two MIT agents working undercover in the Turkish Embassy in Bern.

Should the two men arrive in Switzerland they would be arrested.