During the last week, dozens of people were taken into custody and some were arrested for calling Erdogan a thief and a murderer, which has become a common discourse of protest against the president following the fatal police violence of June 2013 and unveiled corruption in December 2013.
The Communist Party, Turkey, organized several rallies for the release of those taken into custody and arrested, and responded to the prosecutions by a Central Committee statement, which announced the Party’s ‘complicity’ in the so-called ‘crime’ of calling Erdogan a thief and a murderer.
Declaring that neither the dictator nor its vassals will be able to run away from the facts, the Communist Party militants have started to cover the street walls with graffitis and stickers saying, “Erdogan is a thief and a murderer”.