During a Tuesday press conference with Turkish President Abdullah Gül in Stockholm, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt urged Turkey to consider overhauling its terrorism laws which are used by the Turkish courts to jail journalists.

Against the backdrop of US-based Committee to Protect Journalists' October-released report - which showed that Turkey is the leading jailer of journalists in the world, with more journalists jailed in the country than in China or Iran -, Reinfeldt said during the press conference that it is time that part of the Turkish constitution "clearly address the issue of freedom of the media."

With Turkey's present constitution dating back to a military coup in 1980, a special committee was created by the Turkish parliament in May 2012 for drafting a basic law to replace the constitution currently in force.

Drawing attention to the fact that Turkey's broadly defined terrorism laws had led to the detention of a number of journalists, Reinfeldt said that Sweden was hopeful that "a full judicial package" adopted by the Turkish government will result in a "more narrow definition of terrorism."

With regard to the requisite change in Turkish terrorism laws, Reinfeldt also added: "This is also an issue of how it is used by free-standing courts. But we have discussed it and I think reform is now on its way."