nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200910-005553-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200909s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200910-005553-0 doi eng 342 23 Frerichs, Sabine Author aut Violation of Freedoms and Judges in Turkey Frerichs, Sabine Verfassungsblog 2020-09-09 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Sometimes the voice of the president, who cannot be silenced, is one of the few that resound freely to recall the principles and values that are assumed to be typical of Europe. Holding a lecture at one of the Istanbul universities that offered him an honorary degree, the President of the European Court Robert Spano began by saying that he accepted that honour not only because it was a protocol moment, never refused in any member state of the Council of Europe, but also because the ceremony gave him the opportunity to underline the importance of academic freedom and freedom of expression in a democracy governed by the rule of law. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Academic Freedom ECtHR EGMR honorary degree Robert Spano Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/violation-of-freedoms-and-judges-in-turkey/ raw object