The verdict was announced at 16:15 Swedish time, just over two hours after the trial began in a packed courtroom with a large Swedish presence.
Medin is sentenced to a conditional sentence of eleven months and seven days.
The first part of the indictment concerned, among other things, the dissemination of a caricature of Turkey's president.
It's as good a verdict as we can get right now, says his defender Veysel Ok, referring to the fact that Medin risked a long prison sentence.
There is no date yet for the next trial.
EU parliamentarian Jonas Sjöstedt, who followed the trial on site, believes that Medin should have been acquitted.
At the same time, the judge opens up for him to avoid prison altogether if he is acquitted in the next trial. Now it's important that the Swedish government, as well as other parties and organizations, increase the pressure on Turkey, he says.
"Not guilty"
I consider myself not guilty, said the Swede via a link from prison in Istanbul during the trial.
In courtroom 79 on the fifth floor of a colossal gray courthouse building in central Ankara, the hearing was led by two judges.
On a TV screen above them, Joakim Medin appeared, wearing a dark blue shirt. He sat down on a white plastic chair, next to his lawyer, to defend himself against allegations of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which is criminal in Turkey.
The Swede explained that he had not received the indictment in advance, but declined to postpone the proceedings for that reason. He pleaded not guilty to the crime and began to tell about himself and his role as a journalist.
This is taking too long, one of the judges interrupted early, adding that the only thing that matters is why Medin has disseminated the material in question.
With a pride flag
Via an occasionally crackling video link, Joakim Medin told that it took a long time before he even found out what he was arrested for. That he received documents in Turkish, which he does not understand, and was initially held in a cell without a toilet or water.
The indictment concerns information about a protest he did not attend – a noted Kurdish demonstration in Stockholm – and social media posts he himself did not share, Medin emphasized further. According to the allegations, the insult concerns Medin sharing one of his own articles, where an accompanying image montage showed President Erdogan with a pride flag.
Medin pointed out that he is not responsible for the image choice and noted that the caricature had already been widely publicized.
"Not my intention"
It was never my intention to insult President Erdogan. That would not be ethical as a journalist, said the Swede.
On the other hand, he is a public figure, Turkey's leader for over 20 years and a central figure in Sweden's NATO process. Therefore, it was impossible not to mention him in articles about it.
Medin was arrested at the airport in Istanbul at the end of March, when he traveled there to report on ongoing and large protests against the government. He is further charged with participating in a terrorist organization and spreading terrorist propaganda, which will be addressed later.
According to Medin's defender, he risks up to twelve years in prison.
