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Re:Turkey's Erdogan restricting the internet by cygx on Monday March 05, 2018 @11:23AM (#16522066)
The scope isn't quite the same, but Germany went through a series of left-wing terrorist attacks in the 70s.

There's a (German) article[1] by Günther Nollau, former president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, that might be of interest. The title translates to something like Sympathy alone is no criminal offence.

I have only cursorily followed what has been happening in Turkey, but newspapers getting shut down, rulings by the constitutional court getting ignored and a president who unironically cited Nazi Germany as inspiration for a functioning presidential system raise quite a few alarm bells...

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-40831680.html

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Re:Turkey's Erdogan restricting the internet by afyalman on Monday March 05, 2018 @01:24PM (#16523093)
This is not 1977 unfortunately. Try ISIS in Germany or in social media, if you are confident enough about the division between sympathizer and supporter.

http://www.dw.com/en/europol-probes-islamic-state-created-so...

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