The Left Party's EU parliamentarians Jonas Sjöstedt and Hanna Gedin have, together with Giorgos Georgiou from Cyprus, presented a motion that implies a condemnation of the allegations – and demands that Medin and other journalists imprisoned for "exercising their freedom of speech" be immediately released.
The proposal is scheduled for discussion in the parliament on Wednesday and will be voted on on Thursday at 12 o'clock.
It is highly likely that the EU parliament will then condemn the arrest and demand that Joakim Medin be released, said Jonas Sjöstedt to TT earlier in the week when he was on location in Ankara to follow the trial.
The EU parliament's potential demands and condemnation, however, will have no concrete consequences for Turkey.
Joakim Medin was sentenced to a conditional sentence of over 11 months for insulting the president after the trial in Ankara. He is also charged with participating in a terrorist organization and spreading terrorist propaganda and is still being held in prison awaiting the trial. There is no date set for the next trial.
According to Medin's defenders, he risks up to 12 years in prison in the worst-case scenario.
Journalist Joakim Medin traveled to Istanbul on assignment for the newspaper Dagens ETC on March 27 to report on the widespread protests in the country, following the arrest of Istanbul's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
Medin, who has visited Turkey as a journalist several times, was arrested directly at the airport.
He was then moved to the high-security prison Marmara in Silivri outside Istanbul, where many of Turkey's political prisoners are or have been held. Medin is being held in the same section as the imprisoned mayor Imamoglu.
On April 23, he was charged with participating in a terrorist organization, spreading terrorist propaganda, and insulting the president. In a first trial in Ankara regarding the charge of insulting the president, he was sentenced to a conditional sentence.
