On the Civil Struggle of Academics in Turkey: The Peace Petition Signers by Iris Agmon

An Opening Remark A couple of days ago, the Constitutional Court in Turkey took a decision of possiblyserious consequences. For the first time in three and a half years of persecution of thesignatories of the Academics for Peace petition, the Constitutional Court overturnedthe decision to convict ten signatories, who had been found guilty on the charge ofpromoting terrorist propaganda. The verdict of the Constitutional Court is founded onthe freedom of expression, a claim that the petition si..