Freedom of movement
But political activists in Germany, where there are 2.8 million people with Turkish heritage, are less convinced that there will now be a sudden mass stream of political refugees.
Erkin Erdogan, spokesman for the "Berlin Freedom and Democracy Block," an alliance of Turkish opposition groups in the German capital, pointed out that, for one thing, it's not that easy to leave Turkey at the moment - because of the newly-declared state of emergency.
"Civil servants for example cannot leave Turkey anymore," he told DW. "There are some additional intelligence-based checklists in the airports, people cannot freely move out."
"All the leave for public sector workers has been cancelled," he added. "A friend of mine from the university in Ankara was in Berlin for summer school, and she had to go back because officially you cannot be abroad anymore."
Despite the tense new atmosphere, Erkin didn't believe the recent developments were having an immediate effect. "From my personal and political circles, I don't have a feeling that people are trying to run away," he said. "But I know that some people from the LGBT community are very scared at the moment and some of them are trying to move out of Turkey. But I don't have the feeling that this is in big numbers."
The Berlin Freedom and Democracy Block is holding a demonstration against both Erdogan's "dictatorship/sultanate" and the military coup on Friday evening, which its press release describes as a choice between "cholera and the plague."
Despite the turmoil in Turkey, Erkin does not expect the political conflict to spill over to the streets of Berlin, where there are also plenty of President Erdogan supporters - largely because the political opposition always opposed the coup.
"In Turkey and in Kurdish cities, we didn't see the democratic opposition on the streets yet, but I think that's because people are very scared," said Erkin. "The democratic opposition had a lot attacks - partly from IS (Islamic State)." For this reason, he says, the Turkish opposition has found it easier to mobilize in Germany.
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