Sweden to distance itself from Kurdish groups - Swedish FM ...Kuwait

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Sweden's new government will distance itself from the Kurdish YPG militia as it tries to win Turkey's approval to join NATO, Sweden's foreign minister told Swedish Radio on Saturday. The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and its political branch PYD are considered by Turkey extensions of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which launched an insurgency against Turkey in 1980 and is regarded as a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. Sweden, along with the United States and several other NATO countries, has supported the YPG in the fight against Islamic State. However, Turkey has vowed to block Sweden's application to join NATO if it doesn't stop

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