Media and Legal Studies Association (MLSA) Co-Director lawyer Veysel Ok received the Thomas Dehler Medal from German Federal Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger with a ceremony organized in Munich. The award was given to Ok due to “his efforts on freedom of expression and the supremacy of law.”
In his speech at the ceremony, Ok stated, “We can no longer say that there are ‘obstacles against freedom of expression and the right to defense in Turkey’; for such freedom of expression and the right to defense no longer exists in Turkey. It is currently insufficient to say that Turkey is no longer a state of law. Turkey doesn’t even have law any more. As the judiciary was part of the problem in the past, now it has become the problem itself.”
08.04.2019
medyavehukuk.org