Amna: Sweden's prime minister
will step down tomorrow after
conceding defeat in the
country's general election.
Final results found a right-wing
coalition with an anti-immigrant
agenda has a narrow enough
majority to orma government.
-- To form a government.
This seismic shift could have
serious application for dozens
of kurdish asylum-seekers.
The price for Sweden's bid to
join nato.
>> A long slow drive from some
of the world's most tranquil
countryside to hear a human
story around one of the most
burning geopolitical issues.
On the road to northern Sweden,
close to the arctic circle.
Sweden's military status is on
the verge of changing
dramatically after 200 years of
neutrality and avoiding
conflict.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has
pushed Sweden into joining nato.
But it's succession's and the
balance because of a small group
of people on Turkey's most
wanted list.
We're heading north to meet one
of those people whose fate could
determine if Turkey uses its
veto to block Sweden's
ambitions.
Exiled kurdish leaders say of
all the people that Turkey
demands be extradited, you will
is the most vulnerable.
She fled in 2015 to claim
political asylum.
The processes and the balance
because the Swedes won't accept
her documentation.
>> Even to say you're kurdish in
Turkey is a risk.
You can be imprisoned for it.
Someone who has stayed with the
pkk, it means torture and death
in Turkey.
>> She is afraid that agents
will kidnap her.
She is refusing to go to the
Turkish embassy to obtain papers
required because she thinks she
will disappear.
The pkk is labeled as a
terrorist organization by the
U.S. State department and the
European union.
Later, she says she joined the Y
pj, the kurdish female defense
force and took part in battles
across the islamic state.
Despite her part, they are
afraid Sweden will sacrifice the
human rights principles.
>> I am particularly afraid for
my children.
>> There are fears based on
assurances.
>> We take the Turkish concerns
very seriously.
>> In the memorandum, we assured
Turkey that we would take the
fight of terrorists seriously.
>> They engage in tough
negotiations for the memorandum
a green -- agreed at the summit.
The applications to join were
approved by the alliance
leaders.
They insist they will not permit
the Swedes to water down the
commitments on terrorism.
>> The document is not a
document, just to wake
obligations or wishful thinking.
The obligations are clear
mechanisms the two are going to
establish.
>> This is a straightforward
situation.
Starting to predict a handful of
people.
>> It is the most important
thing.
>> The image is a rural Swedish
mother, sharply contrasting to
the Turks as a terrorist.
Patriotic kurdish songs offer a
glimpse of her identity.
>> Are you a terrorist?
>> As far as Turkey is
concerned, I am a terrorist.
But it support to understand
that it was the Turkish army
that forced me to leave my
village and joined the pkk.
The Turkish army stormed and
destroyed our villages, killed
children, and raped women.
The Turkish state forced me into
the life I had.
>> Fears have triggered pro pkk
demonstrations in Stockholm.
They interpreted the Swedish
tolerance of terrorism.
As far as they're concerned, you
are a terrorist.
>> This person, that person,
really.
There are terrorists, yes, in
Sweden.
Took advantage of the system.
So yeah, we want to some people
to be extradited.
>> Sweden is home to 150,000
kurdish exiles.
>> They see Sweden as a mother
and the mother has beaten the
children and they don't
understand what the mother has
done.
>> They are horrified by what he
perceives as Swedish pixelation.
-- H and.
-- Capitulation.
>> If they believe part -- Putin
was more dangerous than erdogan.
>> Sweden's former ambassador to
the united nations says he is
embarrassed.
>> After months of talks between
the two governments, it is a
grand slam for everyone and a
shame for Sweden with the trail
kurdish Democrats.
>> Do you think Turkey really
has the hand here?
Do you not think Sweden will
stand up for its principles?
People that have come to seek
sanctuary?
>> The trilateral agreement
between Turkey and Sweden says
differently.
>> But there is a completely
different perspective from
Berlin.
It lists erdogan using the
kurdish issue to push the U.S.
To sell him the 35 fighter jet.
>> More than anything.
>> The country was kicked off
the f-35 program after buying a
Russian missile defense system.
>> It is an open-ended
bargaining process.
>> The U.S. Has to say that they
are not terrorists, just
victims.
They saved the world from ISIS
and the war has to take that.
>> They are a-game entertaining
the elder son.
She wants to raise her family in
peace and has this message from
president Biden -- for president
Biden.
>> Erdogan's Turkey kills women
and civilians in the name of him
saying they are supposedly
fighting terror and terrorists.
In the last few years, the U.S.
Has gotten to know kurds on
their own terms in the fight
against ISIS.
Not on erdogan's terms.
>> They fight against the odds
and if the latest battle keeps
Sweden out of nato, then as far
as she is concerned, so be it.
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