toomuchtime_
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Not much of a point. Sweden does have a small Kurdish population mostly living in its capitol and it may be that some of these support the PKK, but there is no evidence the Swedish government supports the PKK, although the terrorist designation of the PKK has become controversial in the EU.So far Turkey is keeping Sweden and Finland out of NATO, and so far he is suceeding.
Ergodan is accusing both countries of supporting terrorism.
"When Erdogan talks of “terrorists” in this context, he means the Kurdish Workers’ Party, or the PKK – a Kurdish Marxist separatist movement that has been fighting Turkish forces on-and-off since the 1980s. It operates mostly in southeastern Turkey and parts of northern Iraq.
The PKK is classified as a terrorist organization by Turkey, as well as by the U.S., Canada, Australia and the European Union.
In fact, Sweden was one of the first countries to designate the group as a terrorist organization in 1984."
So there you have it. He has a point.
Turkey, itself, is a state sponsor of terrorism, supporting Hamas, widely condemned as a terrorist organization, and allowing it to use Turkey as a base of operations to plan and carry out terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians.