In May 1973, Frank Judd made a late-night speech in the Commons deploring military intervention in the Turkish constitution and the country’s political life, with organisations banned, mass imprisonment, torture and censorship.
Only a minister and a handful of MPs were in the chamber, and in the visitors’ gallery there was just a Turkish embassy official and me, a postgraduate politics student from the London School of Economics. I was deeply grateful to Judd for his solidarity on behalf of all who defend democracy in Turkey.