Swedish journalist in Turkey convicted of insulting presidential | EUROtoday

In March, a Swedish journalist was arrested when he entered Turkey. Now a court docket has convicted him of alleged presidential insult. Another process remains to be pending.

In Turkey, a Swedish journalist has been convicted of accusation of presidential insult. He obtained eleven months on probation. Due to an extra process in reference to allegations of terrorist, he had not been launched, however nonetheless in custody, the MLSA lawyer’s affiliation stated.

In each instances, the journalist rejects the allegations. Kaj Joakim Medin, who works for the Swedish each day newspaper “Dagens etc.”, was arrested and arrested on the finish of March shortly after his touchdown in Istanbul.

Medin denies allegations

The presidential insult was accused of Medin, amongst different issues, in reference to an illustration in 2023 in Stockholm. For instance, a portrait of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had been held on the skin of the city corridor. According to MLSA, Medin stated that he had by no means participated within the protest and being overseas.

He didn’t choose images with which a few of his journalistic texts had been illustrated and which have been charged to him within the process, stated Medin. “My intention was never to insult President Erdoğan,” Mlsa quoted him.

Supposedly unfold propaganda for PKK

Medin can also be accused of membership in an armed terrorist group, because the state information company Anadolu reported. According to this, the Swede is alleged to have unfold “propaganda” for the forbidden Kurdish staff’ get together PKK on social media. According to Anadolu, the authorities additionally check with Medin’s reporting from Syria, Iraq and the southeast of Türkiye between 2014 and 2017. The course of remains to be pending.

The editor -in -chief of Medins Zeitung, Andreas Gustavsson, had already written on platform X shortly after the arrest in March: “I know that the allegations are wrong. 100 % wrong.”