The journalist Joakim Medin, who works for the newspaper Dagens ETC, was arrested on Thursday at Istanbul's airport. He had traveled to Turkey to cover the democracy protests in the country that broke out after the opposition's leading candidate, Istanbul's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, was imprisoned.
Right now, the Foreign Ministry is working intensively on the issue, and it is our assessment that they have the best opportunities to make progress. We take this very seriously, says Kristersson to TT in connection with a visit to the Västernorrland Regiment in Östersund.
Medin is accused of insulting Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and of being a member of a terrorist organization.
The Prime Minister has not yet had contact with Turkey's President Erdogan, but he is not ruling anything out.
It's not the one who shouts the loudest who is most successful in this situation. This is very difficult, and other countries have also experienced it.
This is happening at a time when other question marks are growing around the Turkish justice system, says Ulf Kristersson.
On Thursday and Friday, NATO's foreign ministers will meet, and then the issue will be raised.
We are working systematically on the case, but we don't think it's a good idea to go public with too many details about this, because I don't think it will benefit his case.
