Swedish Journalist Freed After 51 Days in Turkish Custody
“I don’t think Joakim would have been on his way home without the enormous support that the media, organizations, and politicians have shown,” wife Sofie Axelsson said.
“I don’t think Joakim would have been on his way home without the enormous support that the media, organizations, and politicians have shown,” wife Sofie Axelsson said.
The controversial easing of Assad-era sanctions comes in response to demands from Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s governing AKP party welcomed the move as an “important step.”
Turkish authorities have accused Medin of being involved in a 2023 anti-Erdoğan protest in which a doll resembling Erdoğan was hung upside down outside Stockholm City Hall.
The largest opposition party will hold a demonstration on Wednesday, a month after the arrest of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s biggest political rival.

The Turkish government insists that the main opposition leader’s arrest was based on criminal reports.

The arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu has sparked the largest demonstrations in over a decade.

The arrest of the Istanbul mayor —a key challenger to President Erdogan—was denounced as a politically motivated crackdown.

The airstrikes targeted 32 PKK-linked sites in Iraq and Syria

Disillusioned by empty promises of EU integration, Turkey bets on the China-Russia-led economic bloc instead.