Malmer Stenergard has spoken with Turkish Hakan Fidan in Poland, where EU countries' foreign ministers are meeting and candidate countries' ministers are also present.
I was very clear about our expectation that Joakim Medin will soon be able to come home to Sweden. But exactly what he replied or what we went into, I will not comment, says Malmer Stenergard to TT and SR Ekot on site in Warsaw.
The Foreign Minister does not tell how long the meeting lasted or what Sweden has for hopes ahead.
Prosecution in Istanbul
After last week's conditional sentence against Joakim Medin in Ankara for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prosecution awaits in Istanbul for allegations of terrorist organization membership and spreading terrorist propaganda.
The Foreign Minister seems to see a certain hope that Medin will be able to be released.
We mean that this is about Joakim Medin's journalistic work. It is always serious when that work is attacked. But we also note that it was a conditional sentence (for insult), says Malmer Stenergard.
Meet again
How the atmosphere was at Thursday's meeting with Fidan, she does not want to comment.
I do not go into that at all, but we have, since I took office, experienced a good dialogue and that is what I intend to continue with.
Talks about Medin are also promised next week when Malmer Stenergard and Fidan meet again when NATO holds an informal foreign ministers' meeting.
I think that NATO cooperation is so prioritized that I attend these meetings, but it does not prevent Sweden and EU from expressing criticism, says Maria Malmer Stenergard.
Journalist Joakim Medin went on assignment for the newspaper Dagens ETC to Istanbul on March 27 to report on the widespread protests in the country, since Istanbul's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested.
Medin, who has visited Turkey as a journalist several times, was arrested directly at the airport.
After that, he was moved to the high-security prison Marmara in Silivri outside Istanbul, where many of Turkey's political prisoners are sitting or have sat. Medin sits in the same department as the imprisoned mayor Imamoglu.
On April 23, he was prosecuted for participating in a terrorist organization, spreading terrorist propaganda, and insulting the president. In a first trial in Ankara regarding the prosecution for insult, he was sentenced to a conditional sentence.
