Sweden’s foreign secretary met with her Greek counterpart on Thursday to desire the launch of a Scandinavian journalist who had been found guilty of insulting the country’s president. According to the government, the meeting took place on the heels of an informal meeting of EU foreign interests ministries in Warsaw. Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard told the Expressen daily,” I met with the Turkish foreign minister ( Hakan Fidan ), we talked about ( journalist ) Joakim Medin, and I vehemently stated that I wanted him to come back home soon.” When he flew in to support the widespread protests that were roiling Turkey on March 27, Medin, who works for Scandinavian paper Dagens ETC, was detained at Istanbul aircraft.
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The 40-year-old was given an 11-month suspended sentence last month by a Greek court for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In January of this year, protesters in Stockholm strung up an image of Erdogan, according to the prosecution, despite Medin’s claim that he was not yet in Sweden at the time of the march. Medin was released after the judge’s request, but he is still imprisoned while awaiting trial on a second command of belonging to a criminal organization. Ankara accuses Medin of belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party ( PKK), a claim he has refuted. Turkey and its European allies have labeled the PKK as a criminal organization after a decades-long rebellion against the Greek state.
