Incident Occurred at Stockholm Airport in November 2022
According to the English section of webangah News Agency,citing Mehr News Agency and Daily Sabah,the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter reported that during the November 2022 meeting between Prime Minister ulf Kristersson and president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to discuss Sweden’s accession to NATO,a folder containing Stockholm government documents was forgotten at Arlanda Airport.
The newspaper stated that promptly after Kristersson and Erdoğan’s talks, one official left behind the folder related to negotiations at the airport.
The Swedish government press service confirmed that one of its staff members had accidentally left the folder at Arlanda Airport. It was later found by an airport employee.
Stockholm also confirmed that these documents did not contain classified data but refused to provide details on how long they were missing or how the incident was handled.
The report quoted sources suggesting parts of the documents were covered by foreign relations confidentiality rules and contained information possibly damaging to Sweden’s relations with other countries.
As a key NATO member for over 70 years, Turkey conditionally approved Sweden’s entry into this US-led military alliance, citing concerns related to terrorist groups like the PKK and Fethullah Gülen organization-which Turkey labels as terrorist entities.
Following extensive negotiations addressing NATO members’ objections and settling disputes, Sweden officially became NATO’s 31st member on March 7, 2024, after agreeing to measures addressing Turkey’s security concerns.
