Sweden blocking Turkish man's extradition is "very negative," Ankara says

FILE PHOTO: Bulent Kenes, a journalist who fled to Sweden in 2016 and was granted asylum, poses for a photo in Stockholm, Sweden December 19, 2022. Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency/via REUTERS/File Photo

ANKARA (Reuters) - Sweden's Supreme Court blocking the extradition of Bulent Kenes, a Turkish man, is a "very negative" development, Turkey's foreign minister said on Tuesday, as Stockholm seeks Ankara's approval for it to join NATO.

Mevlut Cavusoglu was speaking at a news conference in Ankara. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan last month singled out Kenes as a person Ankara wants extradited from Sweden as a condition for Ankara's approval for Stockholm to join NATO.