I’m going to travel to Turkey for a large academic conference in about a week and somehow I’m not particularly looking forward to it. I wonder why it’s seen as appropriate to conduct large international academic events, especially in a field like cryptography, in undemocratic countries that take political prisoners.
(context: https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/tuerkei-razzien-102.html and many similar stories on Turkey’s regression into authoritarianism)
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