The Swedish citizen Ramazan Kizil, who was tried by a Turkish court on Christmas Eve for spreading propaganda in Kurdish on behalf of a prohibited political party at a political rally in Turkey, was sentenced to 10 month’s imprisonment. Kizil, who returned to Sweden after the court proceedings, will be arrested if he enters Turkey again, news agency TT reports. Kizil is one of the founders of the Dalkurd football club in Borlonge in central Sweden, the club that he now chairs. On Christmas Eve he was tried in a Turkish court, accused of agitating, in Kurdish, for the Kurdish political party DTP. After the court proceedings, Kizil travelled home to Sweden, to avoid incarceration if the judgment went against him. The Turkish authorities have recently carried out a series of extensive actions against members of DTP, which was recently forbidden by the country’s constitutional court. The party is accused of having dealings with the separatist guerrilla movement, PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organisation in Turkey, the EU and the USA.
SWED SENTENCED IN TURKEY
SWED SENTENCED IN TURKEY