STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s international minister met along with her Turkish counterpart on Thursday to demand the discharge of a Swedish journalist convicted in Turkey of insulting the nation’s president, the Swedish international ministry mentioned.The assembly was held on the sidelines of a casual assembly of EU foreign affairs ministers in Warsaw, the ministry informed AFP.“I met with the Turkish international minister (Hakan Fidan), we talked about (journalist) Joakim Medin and I clearly mentioned that I wished him to return residence quickly,” Overseas Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard informed the Expressen every day.Medin, who works for Swedish newspaper Dagens ETC, was detained at Istanbul airport on March 27 when he flew in to cowl the mass protests gripping Turkey.A Turkish courtroom final month handed the 40-year-old an 11-month suspended sentence on prices of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.Prosecutors say Medin attended a protest in Stockholm in January 2023 the place protesters strung up an effigy of Erdogan, although Medin argued that he was not even in Sweden on the time of the rally.The decide ordered that Medin be launched, however he stays behind bars awaiting trial on a second cost of belonging to a terrorist group.Ankara accuses Medin of being a member of the Kurdistan Employees’ Get together (PKK), a declare he has denied.The PKK has led a decades-long insurgency towards the Turkish state, and is blacklisted by Turkey and its Western allies as a terrorist organisation.
