nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200717-115213-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200717s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200717-115213-0 doi eng 342 23 Oder, Bertil Emrah Author aut Attacking the Bar Associations A new episode of capture and distraction in Turkey Oder, Bertil Emrah Verfassungsblog 2020-07-17 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In the midst of pandemic, thousands of attorneys-at-law in Turkey have spent days and nights for almost two weeks to protest a bill that prescribes amendments in the Advocacy Law. The bill would reduce the representation of (generally progressive) lawyers from Turkey’s big cities in the national Union of Turkish Bar Associations and furthermore allows setting up new bar associations. It is feared that this might be used to weaken the existing strong bar associations that have repeatedly criticized the government in the past on matters concerning human rights and the protection of the rule of law. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Authoritarianism Bar Associations Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/attacking-the-bar-associations/ raw object