Erdogan has major freak-out after Germany declares massacre of Armenians "genocide"

[DetlefK]

11. Because the turkish right is extremely nationalistic.

They have a rubber-paragraph about "insulting turkdom" that can send you to jail for saying something bad about Turkey or turkish culture.

Anecdote. And I am seriously not kidding.
There once was some kind of festivity, attended by turkish politicians, where something about Turkey was celebrated. They had a cake there, covered in a red Marcipan-layer decorated to have it look like the turkish flag. The cake was shown to the journalists, photographed...
Then they wanted to cut the cake and serve it. But this would have meant cutting through the turkish flag, desecrating it.
So they carefully lifted this soft and fragile marcipan-layer from the cake, without damaging it, so they could cut the cake.