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‘Now we are not safe’: Sweden’s Kurds fear Nato deal has sold them out
(www.theguardian.com)
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Turkish president’s decision to approve the military alliance’s latest member – 20 months after it had asked to join – marked the closure of a fraught diplomatic chapter and now leaves Hungary’s Viktor Orbán the only figure standing between Sweden and Nato.
Erdoğan has previously accused historically neutral Sweden of giving sanctuary to members of the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK), despite the Scandinavian country becoming the first nation after Turkey to label it a terrorist group, a designation later adopted by the EU, UK and US.
Paul T Levin, director of the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies, said the political mobilisation of Kurds in Sweden in recent years has been high, which has led to associations affiliated or aligned with the PKK becoming more prominent.
Last week, days after Turkey approved Sweden’s Nato application, it was announced that public broadcaster Sveriges Radio would be shutting its Kurdish newsroom – along with its Russian and Tigrinya services – on 1 April.
Amineh Kakabaveh, a former Swedish member of parliament of Iranian Kurdish descent who previously had police protection due to threats on her life, is equally scathing about Stockholm’s Nato strategy.
At a Kurdish restaurant in Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm, owner Cihanê Ruzer, 60, said he felt safe in Sweden, but that the country he moved to from Turkey in 1996 had undergone a significant shift since applying to join Nato.
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Both Sveriges Television (Public TV) and Sveriges Radio (Public Radio Broadcaster) has seen their budgets cut hard, as mentioned inthe Guardians article. 180 jobs are gone from our public radio broadcaster.
Other things disappearing is a popular gardening radio show where they talk with lots of different experts. It's replaced with a cheaper to produce podcast.