(Bloomberg)-Journalist Joakim Medin was arrested in Turkey for accusing the “insulting of the President” and “membership in an armed terrorist organization”, according to the state agency Anadol, quoted by the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.
This step followed after investigating the protest in January 2023 in Stockholm, where the mannequin representing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was hung in a portrait in front of the town hall.
According to prosecutors, it was believed that 15 suspects, including Medin, a reporter of foreign affairs for the Swedish intelligence service Dagens, etc.
The investigation also referred to the contributions of Medin on social media with weapons, flags and members of PKK/YPG. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, is considered to be a terrorist organization and Turkey concerns the armed wing of Syria Kurdish Democratic Union – known as folk protective units or YPG – for the associated company PKK.
Medin’s detention was announced on the website of the Swedish outlet. His arrest comes in the same week when Turkey deported the BBC journalist and detained the photographer of Agence France-Presse covering the protests induced by the mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu. Turkey’s authorities also imposed a darkening of some local media.
“I demand that the Swedish government act directly and sharply,” wrote the editor -in -chief Dagens, etc.
Medin was also the author of the book 2023 on the involvement of Turkey in the Swedish ratification process of NATO.
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