{"id":5720,"date":"2025-03-29T04:12:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T04:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/turkey-detains-swedish-journalist-covering-istanbul-protests\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T04:12:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T04:12:48","slug":"turkey-detains-swedish-journalist-covering-istanbul-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/turkey-detains-swedish-journalist-covering-istanbul-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Detains Swedish Journalist Covering Istanbul Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"I\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>ISTANBUL \u2013 A Swedish journalist, Kaj Joakim Medin, has been arrested in Turkey while reporting on protests tied to the detention of Istanbul\u2019s mayor. Turkish authorities have accused Medin of \u201cterrorism\u201d and \u201cinsulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,\u201d citing his previous work in conflict zones as evidence of a threat.<\/p>\n<p>Medin, who arrived in Turkey to cover the unrest, now finds himself imprisoned in a country where press freedom has long been under siege. The Swedish government has called for immediate consular access and clarification from Ankara, though Turkey\u2019s track record suggests little cooperation. Under Erdogan\u2019s rule, independent journalism increasingly appears to be a punishable offense.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Reuter<\/em>s<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<\/footer><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2025\/03\/29\/turkey-detains-swedish-journalist-covering-istanbul-protests\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL \u2013 A Swedish journalist, Kaj Joakim Medin, has been arrested in Turkey while reporting on protests tied to the detention of Istanbul\u2019s mayor. Turkish authorities have accused Medin of \u201cterrorism\u201d and \u201cinsulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,\u201d citing his previous work in conflict zones as evidence of a threat. Medin, who arrived in Turkey to &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Turkey Detains Swedish Journalist Covering Istanbul Protests\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/turkey-detains-swedish-journalist-covering-istanbul-protests\/#more-5720\" aria-label=\"Read more about Turkey Detains Swedish Journalist Covering Istanbul Protests\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250329_150156.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}