Commenting on the move, Bienkowski explained that he and his associates seek to draw public attention to the authoritarian developments in Turkey.
"We would like to draw attention to the problems arising in Turkey following the cancellation of almost all MPs' immunity. Erdogan seeks to transform Turkey into a presidential dictatorship. At least, the Turkish intellectuals are assessing the situation this way," Bienkowski told Sputnik. "We wanted to take the initiative in our hands and provide Merkel with some satirical material ahead of her visit to Turkey," he added.
A few days earlier, the artists covered the Turkish Embassy with Erdogan' pictures where the mustached authoritarian leader looked like Hitler. On one of the images Erdogan is wearing a red and white Nazi armband and Hitler mustache, and another depicted him side by side with Hitler.
"In my opinion, every person born in Germany must do everything to prevent the occurrence of such dictators and dictatorial systems. Everyone can see the parallels between what is happening now — Erdogan's attitude towards the media, the arts and the opposition, on the one side, and the 1933 Emergency power act, on the other. We need to open the eyes of all those who deny this similarity," Bienkowski said.
On May 12, the group also published other images of their artwork to Facebook, this time at the Saudi Embassy. Their caricatures accuse Riyadh of sponsoring Daesh, and called on the German government to stop arms supplies to Saudi Arabia.
"We want to expose human rights violations and the financing of terrorist organizations by this country. I simply can't tolerate the fact that German politicians have visited this country and are grateful to this regime, simply because our country is selling it tanks which are used to suppress uprisings," the activist concluded.
