STOCKHOLM: Lawmakers in Sweden passed legislation on Wednesday (May 3) that tightens the country's anti-terrorism laws, a move expected to help persuade Türkiye to approve the Nordic nation's request to join NATO. The revision includes a prison term of up to four years for individuals convicted of partici
STOCKHOLM: Lawmakers in Sweden passed legislation on Wednesday that tightens the country's anti-terrorism laws, a move expected to help persuade Türkiye to approve the Nordic nation's request to join NATO.
The legislation allows for someone identified as a leader of a terror organization to receive a life sentence, which in Sweden generally means a minimum of 20-25 years. Sweden’s center-right government has taken a harder line not just toward Türkiye's outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, but also toward the Syrian Kurdish militia group YPG and its political branch, PYD. Turkey regards the YPG as the Syrian arm of the PKK, which for decades has waged an insurgency within Turkey.
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