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Response to HAB911 (Original post)

Sat Apr 29, 2017, 09:34 AM

2. My wife's mom remembers when listening to British radio could get you the death penalty

Her mom's father did it anyway. His neighbor, a Nazi, told him he knew he was doing it, but said he wasn't going to denounce him to the Gestapo (and he didn't). After the war, the neighbor pleaded for my wife's grandfather to put in a good word for him, reminding him that he had spared his life when the tables were turned. My wife's dad hated the Nazis, but agreed that he owed the guy his life, and returned the favor.

Apparently, Erdoğan thinks he can stifle his people getting information in today's high tech age. If the Nazis couldn't manage it in the low tech 1940s, how he thinks he will be successful at it today is beyond me. If there is to be a successful uprising against him, it won't come from the low-tech sheep farmers of Anatolia, but from the educated, informed students, businessmen and soldiers of Ankara and Istanbul.

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