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The Turkish justice system under President Erdogan

A recent ruling by the European Court of Human Rights over the case of Ahmet Altan has highlighted what Professor Henri Barkey in a recent piece in The Washington Post has called the “utter debasement of the Turkish justice system under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.” Professor Barkey joins The Greek Current today to discuss this op-ed, and explore how Erdogan has turned Turkey’s judicial system into a political weapon that stifles dissent and criticism.

Henri Barkey is the Cohen Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University and an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Read Prof. Henri Barkey’s latest op-ed in The Washington Post: How Erdogan turned the Turkish courts into a political weapon

You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here: 

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