https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Europe in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Mahmut, originally from Turkey, came to Sweden as an asylum seeker back in 2017 due to political unrest in his home country. Now, he is in citizenship limbo and believes Swedish security police have branded him a security threat, without telling him why. https://www.thelocal.com/20250703/sweden-doesnt-want-me-to-stay-here-but-it-doesnt-want-me-to-leave-either Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:14:17 +0200 sweden-doesnt-want-me-to-stay-here-but-it-doesnt-want-me-to-leave-either Swedish prosecutors have denied the intelligence service's arrests of a Kurdish representative and a Swedish diplomat are linked to a journalist facing 'terror' charges in Turkey. https://www.thelocal.com/20250515/swedish-prosecutors-deny-that-spy-arrests-are-linked-to-journalist-held-in-turkey Thu, 15 May 2025 14:36:14 +0200 swedish-prosecutors-deny-that-spy-arrests-are-linked-to-journalist-held-in-turkey Sweden's foreign minister has met with her Turkish counterpart to demand the release of Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, who has been convicted in Turkey of insulting the country's president. https://www.thelocal.com/20250508/swedish-foreign-minister-urges-turkey-to-release-jailed-journalist Thu, 08 May 2025 16:58:39 +0200 swedish-foreign-minister-urges-turkey-to-release-jailed-journalist Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, who was arrested on arrival in Turkey on terrorism charges, is being kept away from other prisoners but is otherwise in 'good spirits', his employer said. https://www.thelocal.com/20250402/swedish-journalist-held-in-turkey-kept-isolated-from-other-prisoners Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:21:30 +0200 swedish-journalist-held-in-turkey-kept-isolated-from-other-prisoners Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signed off on his parliament's ratification of Sweden as a Nato member. https://www.thelocal.com/20240125/turkey-approves-swedens-nato-application-as-erdogan-signs-ratification Thu, 25 Jan 2024 21:55:30 +0100 turkey-approves-swedens-nato-application-as-erdogan-signs-ratification Turkey's parliament on Tuesday evening voted through Sweden's Nato application, leaving only the signature of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the country's long-delayed ratification to be complete. https://www.thelocal.com/20240123/turkish-parliament-votes-through-swedens-nato-application Tue, 23 Jan 2024 22:09:27 +0100 turkish-parliament-votes-through-swedens-nato-application The Turkish parliament is expected to approve Sweden's membership of Nato this week, ending over a year of delays that severely strained its ties with Western allies. https://www.thelocal.com/20240123/turkey-expected-to-vote-on-swedens-nato-membership-this-week Tue, 23 Jan 2024 07:25:25 +0100 turkey-expected-to-vote-on-swedens-nato-membership-this-week Sweden cleared another hurdle in its Nato accession process after a key committee in the Turkish parliament gave its stamp of approval. https://www.thelocal.com/20231227/turkeys-foreign-affairs-committee-approves-swedens-nato-bid-but-what-happens-now Wed, 27 Dec 2023 09:18:23 +0100 turkeys-foreign-affairs-committee-approves-swedens-nato-bid-but-what-happens-now President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday made Turkey's ratification of Sweden's stalled Nato membership application conditional on the US Congress "simultaneously" approving Ankara's request for F-16 fighter jets. https://www.thelocal.com/20231208/turkey-links-nato-ratification-of-sweden-to-f-16-fighter-jet-sale Fri, 08 Dec 2023 14:47:06 +0100 turkey-links-nato-ratification-of-sweden-to-f-16-fighter-jet-sale Sweden's top court has blocked the extradition of two people wanted by Turkey for involvement in the so-called Gülen movement, a key demand by Turkey to ratify Sweden's Nato membership. https://www.thelocal.com/20230713/swedens-supreme-court-blocks-two-extraditions-to-turkey Thu, 13 Jul 2023 13:57:57 +0200 swedens-supreme-court-blocks-two-extraditions-to-turkey On the eve of today's Nato summit in Vilnius, Turkey's apparently insurmountable opposition to Sweden's Nato membership suddenly evaporated and a deal was done. What happened, and does it really mean Turkey will ratify membership? https://www.thelocal.com/20230711/whats-in-swedens-nato-deal-with-turkey-and-what-happens-next Tue, 11 Jul 2023 13:03:40 +0200 whats-in-swedens-nato-deal-with-turkey-and-what-happens-next A Swedish court has jailed a Turkish citizen for attempted terrorist financing for the pro-Kurdish PKK, the first conviction of its kind in the Nordic country, which is seeking Turkey's approval to join Nato. https://www.thelocal.com/20230706/sweden-locks-up-turkish-man-over-attempted-terrorist-financing-of-pkk Thu, 06 Jul 2023 15:32:44 +0200 sweden-locks-up-turkish-man-over-attempted-terrorist-financing-of-pkk Just a few days before a key meeting between Sweden and Turkey, the Turkish foreign minister said his country was still assessing whether Sweden's entry into Nato would benefit or hurt the military alliance. https://www.thelocal.com/20230704/turkey-says-it-will-not-be-pressured-into-accepting-sweden-as-nato-member Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:10:56 +0200 turkey-says-it-will-not-be-pressured-into-accepting-sweden-as-nato-member Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said he believed it was still possible for Sweden to join the military alliance by mid-July, as the US continued to lean on Turkey and Hungary who are still blocking Swedish membership. https://www.thelocal.com/20230531/us-urges-turkey-and-hungary-to-ratify-swedens-nato-membership Wed, 31 May 2023 10:05:32 +0200 us-urges-turkey-and-hungary-to-ratify-swedens-nato-membership