nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20180614-182729-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 180613s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20180614-182729-0 doi eng 342 23 Çalı, Başak Author aut “Academics for Peace“ and their Freedom of Expression Çalı, Başak Verfassungsblog 2018-06-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The ‘Academics for Peace Petition’, published in January 2016, was signed by around two thousand academics from both Turkey and from abroad. The petition raised concerns, using strong language, about the conduct of Turkish security forces in their counter-terrorism operations carried out in response to violent actions by the PKK terrorist group and their supporters  in south-east Turkey in the summer of 2015. One signatory,  Füsun Üstel, professor of political science, was found guilty of committing the crime of terrorist propaganda under Article 7(2) of the Turkish Counter Terrorism Law and now faces fifteen months of imprisonment. The constitutional protection of Üstel’s freedom of expression has not been respected by the court in its judicial reasoning.  funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 anti-terrorism Freedom of Expression Turkish Constitution Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/academics-for-peace-and-their-freedom-of-expression/ raw object