The trial was due to begin in Turkey at 8 a.m. Thursday. Medin is accused of terrorist offences and faces a prison sentence of several years.
The alternative to postponing the proceedings would have been for the judge to view it as Medin trying to avoid the process and to declare him wanted internationally.
"This is of course much better than if they had dropped the whole thing and declared me wanted. But it is also frustrating that we could not move forward due to the lack of response from the (Swedish) Ministry of Justice," says Joakim Medin.
He himself, through a legal representative in Turkey, has requested that the trial be postponed. Medin says he has not been heard by the Swedish court, which the Turkish court has requested.
But having the process hanging over him for another six months feels heavy, he says:
The longer this takes, the longer I have to carry it on my shoulders. It's frustrating and literally weighing me down.
Strömmer: "We are trying"
The case is with the Ministry of Justice, which will decide whether Medin can be questioned in Sweden. According to Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M), the case is being handled "urgently".
"We are of course examining, as we always do, whether it is assistance that is in line with fundamental Swedish legal principles, and when we are finished with that examination we will make a decision."
Strömmer cannot say when an announcement may come.
I think everyone can see that this is an uncertain and frustrating situation for the person concerned, but how a case like this is assessed affects journalists' ability to do their work.
“Hard to understand”
Medin is being prosecuted for his journalism, but he has not been given any details about what he is actually accused of and has therefore not been able to prepare, he explains.
The Turkish judiciary has not informed him at all, neither now nor when he was in Turkish prison. And the Swedish Ministry of Justice is not releasing any documents, citing confidentiality.
"There is also something called party transparency and this indictment is about me. So it's hard to understand why I'm not allowed to look at anything, not even a redacted version," he says.
Journalist Joakim Medin traveled to Istanbul on behalf of the newspaper Dagens ETC in March last year to report on widespread protests in the country, following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
Medin, who has visited Turkey as a journalist several times, was arrested at the airport.
He was then transferred to the high-security Marmara prison in Silivri outside Istanbul, where many of Turkey's political prisoners are or have been held. Medin was held in the same ward as the imprisoned mayor Imamoglu.
On April 23, he was charged with participating in a terrorist organization, spreading terrorist propaganda, and insulting the president.
In a first trial in Ankara on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he was given a suspended sentence.
He was released on May 16 and landed in Sweden shortly after midnight on May 17. However, even though Medin has been released and has been granted the right to leave the country, the charges of terrorism remain and will continue to be tried in Turkey in Medin's absence. Turkey has requested that Medin be questioned in a Swedish court.
