According to her, the government is working very intensively with the case, both in Stockholm and in Istanbul through the consulate general.
On Sunday, Medin was formally accused of being a member of a terrorist organization and of insulting Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to information from the presidential office.
Sweden has, however, not received any formal documents.
It is difficult to get confirmed information in detail. Neither Joakim Medin himself nor his lawyer or the consulate general has yet seen the charges in writing, says Maria Malmer Stenergard.
We are doing everything we can now to get more information.
Has not been allowed to visit him
What can Sweden do to get him released?
What we are doing now is to maintain contact with relatives and with his employer in Sweden. The consulate general in Istanbul is also in contact with Joakim Medin directly and through his lawyer. The consulate general also has contact with local authorities and is trying to get consular access.
Swedish personnel have not yet been allowed to visit Medin in prison. His lawyer has, however, met him and reports that he is "okay under the circumstances", according to the foreign minister.
She does not want to go into more details in the case, "so as not to complicate our work", and also refers to secrecy.
Exactly how we communicate with Turkish authorities I will not go into. But we will in every situation act in the way that we are convinced will benefit Joakim Medin's case.
Linked to PKK
Medin is said to be one of 15 suspects in an investigation that began after a doll depicting Erdogan was hung outside Stockholm City Hall in January 2023. According to Turkey, the protest was organized by the terrorist-stamped PKK.
Medin's employer Dagens ETC emphasizes that Medin is a journalist.
The only thing I can say in this situation is that he is a journalist, nothing else. And practicing journalism should not be a crime, says editor-in-chief Andreas Gustavsson in a comment to ETC.
Medin was arrested on Thursday when he landed at Istanbul airport, where he had traveled to cover the democracy protests in Turkey.
