For Cemil Aygan, the matter seems clear: if Sweden extradites him to Turkey, his life will be over.

That's what he told Swedish broadcaster SVT.

He had been a member of the Kurdish Workers' Party PKK since the 1970s, which he said he left in 1985.

He has lived in Sweden for a long time, he was active as a local politician for the bourgeois moderates.

But he is also one of the people whose extradition Turkey has already demanded.

Turkey describes him as an active PKK terrorist, "I'm not," he says.

Thomas Gutschker

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There was great relief in Sweden and Finland when the two countries were able to reach an agreement with Turkey just before the start of the NATO summit in Madrid.

Ankara had blocked the accession process for the two countries for a long time, and nervousness in the north had grown.

After the first relief, however, the critical voices increased, especially in Stockholm.

The question at stake was whether too many concessions had been made to Turkey - and whether things could now become dangerous for the Kurds in Sweden.

Amineh Kakabaveh, a non-attached MP with Kurdish roots, spoke of a "black day".

The Kurds would be sacrificed for cynical politics.

The Left Party and the Greens also criticized the agreement and called on Foreign Minister Ann Linde to explain herself in Parliament.

Party veterans even came forward from the ranks of Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson's Social Democrats.

Former Foreign Minister Lena Hjelm-Wallén recognized the agreement as a necessary evil on the way to Sweden's NATO membership.

But she also expressed that the whole process "feels uncomfortable".

How specific the commitments are is open

The government seems particularly uncomfortable with the question of whether there were actually concrete promises of extradition, as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims.

He had been silent for a long time at the NATO summit, only to announce his "diplomatic victory" at the end.

He also made it clear that Sweden and Finland still have to pass him on their way to the alliance.

Before he would start ratifying the accession, the two would first have to fulfill their "promises": supply Turkey with weapons, take action against Kurdish terrorist groups and the Gülen movement, and cooperate with the Turkish judiciary.

"Sweden has promised to extradite 73 terrorists," Erdogan said.

Originally there were 60.

This already led to many questions from Swedish and Finnish journalists in Madrid,

because on Tuesday the Turkish Minister of Justice had spoken of 33 extradition requests, 21 to Sweden and twelve to Finland.

However, Erdogan insisted on his number, and he related it only to Sweden.

When asked that the agreement only states that both countries "will deal with Turkish requests promptly and thoroughly," he replied: "It depends on how we understand the agreement."

So Stockholm is now concerned with how this agreement is to be understood.

From Helsinki it was said that there were no further extradition requests.

In the past ten years, 16 applications have been received from Turkey and two have been granted.

In Stockholm, Andersson tried to appease and made it clear that the agreement would not change much.

They do not deport Swedish citizens and always work according to Swedish law and international agreements.

The PKK is also classified as a terrorist organization in Sweden.

The Supreme Court has twice refused to extradite Aygan to Turkey.

The reason given was that he was threatened with persecution.

Aygan referred to these court decisions to SVT, saying that he was not very concerned despite the agreement.

But he does not have a Swedish passport.