A Swedish journalist, Joakim Medin, was arrested at Istanbul airport over alleged ties to a pro-Kurdish group. The arrest comes as part of a crackdown on media workers covering Turkey’s largest protests in over a decade. Medin faces charges of “membership in a terrorist organization” and “insulting the president.” He is accused of participating in a 2023 rally in Stockholm that featured an effigy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a group designated as a terrorist organization by Ankara and its Western allies. Over a dozen journalists have been detained this week amid a surge in protests in Turkey.
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