Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has not had contact with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the imprisoned Swedish journalist Joakim Medin. I rule out nothing in this matter, he says to TT.
SwedenThe journalist Joakim Medin, who works for the newspaper Dagens ETC, was arrested on Thursday at Istanbul's airport. Now he has written a greeting from prison.
SwedenAne Brun is cancelling a concert in Turkey this autumn, as the concert organizer has been accused of not supporting the protests in Istanbul, writes Dagens Nyheter.
EntertainmentPrime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) says that intense work is underway to secure the release of the Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, who has been detained in Turkey. However, he himself has not contacted President Erdogan.
SwedenWhen the Swedish journalist Joakim Medin was arrested by Turkish police accused of terrorist crimes, several of his rights were violated. This is what the Turkish press freedom lawyer Veysel Ok tells TV4 News.
SwedenThe Government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are working on different levels to bring home the Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, who has been arrested in Turkey, says Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M). Getting Joakim to come home is the highest priority for the Government.
SwedenThe Swedish journalist Joakim Medin has been moved to a high-security prison outside Istanbul. This is reported by his wife Sofie Axelsson to SVT News.
SwedenSwedish journalist organizations are demanding that the imprisoned journalist Joakim Medin be released. It is incredibly serious that he is sitting in a solitary cell instead of being out and reporting on what is actually happening in Turkey, says Erik Larsson from Reporters Without Borders Sweden.
SwedenThe case of the Swedish journalist who was arrested in Turkey has the highest priority for the government. Our goal is for Joakim Medin to be able to come home, says Maria Malmer Stenergard (The Moderate Party) to TT.
SwedenTurkey accuses the imprisoned Swedish journalist Joakim Medin of terrorist crimes – and for reporting "anti-Turkish" news.
SwedenHundreds of thousands of demonstrators gather again on Istanbul's streets on Saturday in protest against the imprisonment of the city's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
WorldThe Swedish journalist Joakim Medin has been arrested in Turkey. The former Turkish ambassador Michael Sahlin calls the arrest outrageous, but believes that Medin will soon be released. I think he will be released within a few days, he says.
SwedenThe Swedish journalist Joakim Medin has been arrested in Turkey. He is accused of having insulted Turkey's president and of being a member of a terrorist organization. But Medin himself has not been told what he is suspected of, according to Dagens ETC.
SwedenMany organizations strongly condemn the fact that the Swedish journalist Joakim Medin has been arrested in Turkey.
SwedenThe Swedish journalist Joakim Medin has been taken to a Turkish prison after being arrested. This is what Dagens ETC's editor-in-chief Andreas Gustavsson tells TV4. Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (The Moderate Party) announces that they have had contact with Turkey's ambassador in Sweden in the matter.
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