Communist Party, Turkey (KP) came out strongly against OPEL company immediately after the publication of an advertisement using and distorting Nazım's lyrics.
The CC of the KP released a statement protesting the OPEL company for their abuse of communist poet Nazım Hikmet's legacy.
"...Our communist poet's legacy cannot be deposited in banks or kept in safe boxes. That legacy can only be saved forever with the reason and the labour of the communists..." wrote the statement.
The statement of the CC of KP ended as follows:
"We rigorously warn you.
Those ads will be removed immediately. An apology will be delivered to the poet himself, to the working class and the people of the world which he devoted his existence, his work, his reason and his life, to the communist movement which he was part of with his whole entity."
OPEL had removed the ad in question from its social media accounts after KP’s strong reaction which mounted a quick campaign of protest.
Similarly, back in 2002 after the YKY publication company had declared material rights over Nazım Hikmet's works, the communists had objected strongly and had published Nazım's works as the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP).