“I can only repeat that he is a journalist who has made journalism,” said the editor -in -chief of Dagens, etc. Andreas Gustavsson. “Joakim is not a criminal, certainly not a kind of terrorist.”
Gustavsson argued that Turkey “was trying to claim that all the journalistic work Joakim Medin has produced about Turkey is terrorism”.
“This is of course an absurd accusation,” he said.
The Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer, Stenergard, said earlier this month that she had raised the case of Medin with her Turkish counterpart, and asked that he be authorized to “go home”.
Relations between Sweden and Turkey have previously been rocky, Ankara initially refusing to ratify the attempt at Stockholm to join NATO, among others, the presence of Kurdish groups in the Nordic country.
Turkey has been criticized by observers of human rights and the European Union for increasingly repressive practices, in particular by imprisoning journalists and suffocating political dissent.
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