Attacking the Bar Associations A new episode of capture and distraction in Turkey Oder, Bertil Emrah Author aut Text xx# 2020 Verfassungsblog 2020-07-17 eng
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 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. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Oder, Bertil Emrah funded by the government Authoritarianism Bar Associations Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/attacking-the-bar-associations/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20200717-115213-0 200717 10.17176/20200717-115213-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)