Joakim Medin was arrested on Thursday at Istanbul's airport.
We have done everything we can to demand consular access, i.e. to meet him and also presented the demands in all our contacts with Turkey, says the Foreign Minister.
The case is of the highest priority for Sweden.
TT has sought a comment from Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M), but he refers to the Foreign Minister.
Malmer Stenergard says that she is in contact with Medin's employer and wife in Sweden as well as with his legal representative. The Consulate General has contact with local authorities and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs has been in contact with Turkey's ambassador in Sweden.
"Extremely urgent"
Malmer Stenergard will also raise the imprisonment with Turkey's Foreign Minister at NATO's Foreign Ministers' meeting later in the week.
I will then naturally present how extremely urgent this is for Sweden. And how urgent it is that Joakim Medin gets to come home.
Medin 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 arrested.
Medin is accused of insulting Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and of being a member of a terrorist organization.
The Foreign Minister does not mention which accusations have been made against Medin, but says that she has been informed about them. She also confirms that he has been transferred to a prison in Marmara. It is a high-security prison where, among others, Imamoglu and other political prisoners are held.
Otherwise, she does not want to comment on the matter further and refers to secrecy and the case's sensitivity.
"Had comments"
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs has been advising against travel to Turkey in areas near Syria and Iraq since 2022, but not for travel to the country as a whole.
Do you think it is safe for Swedish journalists and other Swedes to travel to Turkey?
The latest development is very serious and the fact that Joakim Medin has been imprisoned is very serious. We are constantly updating our recommendations and they should be followed.
But both the EU and Sweden have had comments on how Turkey treats media and media representatives in different contexts.
