When it comes to free speech, many Turks support the limitations.
The walls themselves, a triple line of defense, with 192 towers at alternate intervals in the inner and middle wall, were far in advance of anything erected previously; they were, indeed, so well conceived that they served to protect the city against every assault until the Turks, supported by cannon, attacked with vastly superior odds in 1453.
There are two advantages to this: the first, and most important, would be a truthful declaration that not all Turks supported the genocide, and that there were men – soldiers, gendarmes and, in at least one case, a Turkish provincial governor – who redeemed their country's honour by refusing to participate in this monstrous war crime of 1915.
In that vote in April 2017, 63% of German Turks supported him - although only half of those eligible to vote are thought to have done so.
Although my circle of friends, most of whom are liberal and secular Turks, supported and contributed generously to the campaign, some strangers considered our efforts as "indulgence", so to speak.
Polls suggest that 80% of Turks support Mr Erdogan's actions.
In Germany, by contrast, most young German-born Turks support Turkey rather than the country that is now their home.
An overwhelming majority of Turks support lifting the ban in universities, but support becomes shakier for extending those freedoms to primary schools and high schools.
The government remains divided, though polls show that two-thirds of Turks support membership, primarily in the hope of a much needed economic lift.
Although virtually every Turkish city has its own team, the majority of Turks support one of the nation's "big three" — Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe, and Beşiktaş — all of which are based in Istanbul.
