I was just thinking this law was never enforced when George Bush was President
Actually, it’s never been enforced when Germans openly criticized Bush, Reagan, Thatcher, Putin, Orban (Hungary’s leader), or a dozen-other-odd foreign leaders. This has been brought up in recent days in Germany....that no one can think of a single person that they’ve used this law upon in thirty-odd years.
For this reason, there’s a lot of doubt among Germans (intellectuals and journalists) that any court session will result in a conviction. In fact, if they were to convict him....I suspect at least 50,000 other Germans would openly insult Turkey’s supreme leader and they’d be forced to openly admit they can’t move ahead.