Academic Freedom Under Threat from Commodification, Privitisation and Authoritarian Populism
Prof. Bill Bowring – President of the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) I bring you greetings from the European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH), of which I am the President, and from the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers in England. I am the Joint International Secretary. I am very grateful to Fatma Demirer and Deman Guler for their invitation for me to participate in this important conference in such a beautiful venue. We are very proud that our Turkish members are CHD, a founder member of ELDH, and OHP, who have recently joined. We are in solidarity with all our Turkish colleagues who have been persecuted and prosecuted. This is my first time in Izmir, but not my first time in Turkey. I began to take cases against Turkey on behalf of Kurdish [...]