Maria Malmer Stannergard | world News

Stockholm: Sweden’s Foreign Ministry said that Sweden’s Foreign Minister met with his Turkish counterpart on Thursday, to demand the release of Swedish journalist convicted for insulting the President of the country in Turkey, the Swedish Foreign Ministry said.The ministry told the AFP that the meeting was held on the occasion of an informal meeting of the European Union Foreign Affairs ministers.“I met Turkish Foreign Minister (Hakan Fidan), we talked about (journalist) Jokim Medin and I clearly said that I wanted him to return home soon,” Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stannergard told The Express Daily.Medin, working for Swedish newspaper design etc., was detained at Istanbul Airport on March 27, when he flew to cover a large -scale protests that catch Turkey.A Turkish court last month sentenced the 40 -year -old suspended 11 months, who was accused of insulting President Recep Taip Erdogan.Prosecutors say Medin participated in a protest in Stockholm in January 2023, where the protesters made an effigy of Erdogan, although Medin argued that he was not even in Sweden at the time of the rally.The judge ordered that the Medin be released, but he is behind bars waiting for the trial on another allegation related to a terrorist group.Ankara accused Medin of being a member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a claim that he has refused.PKK has led the decades long rebellion against the Turkish state, and blacklisted as a terrorist organization by Türkiye and its Western colleagues.