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 an off-the-cuff assembly of EU international affairs ministers in Warsaw, the ministry advised AFP.“I met with the Turkish international minister (Hakan Fidan), we talked about (journalist) Joakim Medin and I clearly mentioned that I needed him to return house quickly,” Overseas Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard advised the Expressen day by 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 expenses 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 choose 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’ Celebration (PKK), a declare he has denied.The PKK has led a decades-long insurgency in opposition to the Turkish state, and is blacklisted by Turkey and its Western allies as a terrorist organisation.
