Lütfi Baksi, a Swedish-Kurdish politician, was detained by Turkish police at Istanbul airport. His arrest at a major international hub made news in both countries. Sweden is sensitive to anything involving Kurds and Turkey, so the case did not pass quietly in Stockholm. He is now back in Sweden. Why he was stopped in the first place remains unexplained. It is also unclear whether Turkish authorities opened any formal case against him. The episode lands in the middle of a prickly relationship between Stockholm and Ankara.