Expert: Turkey (July 21, 2016)
"Turkey has banned all academics from leaving the country,聽cancelling their annual leave, as President Tayyip Erdogan's post-coup crackdown escalated to 'exceptional proportions'. One British academic at a state-run university in Istanbul told the Telegraph that foreign nationals had also been told to come back to work." ()
Payam Akhavan, Faculty of Law, 不良研究所
"It seems the attempted military coup has become a pretext for further repression against civil society in Turkey. This follows a trend that started some months ago to gradually dismantle democratic institutions. From a thriving regional power Turkey is now on the brink of disaster with grave consequences for the middle-east."-Payam Akhavan
Professor Akhavan teaches and researches on public international law, international dispute settlement, international criminal law, human rights and cultural pluralism. He聽had cases in the past against Turkey before the European Court of Human Rights.
payam.akhavan [at] mcgill.ca.聽He's available for phone interviews.
