Sweden’s new centre-right government said it would distance itself from several Kurdish groups as the Scandinavian country’s prime minister prepares to meet Turkey’s president to persuade him to back its application to join Nato.
Tobias Billström, Sweden’s new foreign minister, said Stockholm would change how it viewed the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a Kurdish militia in Syria, and associated political group, the Democratic Union party (PYD).
Many western countries have backed the YPG, which helped defeat the terror group Isis in north-east Syria. But Turkey views the militia as a direct threat because of its close ties to the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK), which is recognised by the EU and US as a terrorist organisation.
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