The local council confirmed on Twitter that it had been stolen, posting a sobbing cat emoji, and Tombili's fans expressed their outrage online. "They stole the Tombili statue. They are enemies of everything beautiful. All they know is hate, tears and war. They can't live without those," Republican People's Party MP Tuncay Ozkan tweeted . Another social media user said : "What kind of a country do we live in? What are they going to do with the statue, put it on the mantelpiece?" Even foreign diplomats were upset: the Russian embassy in Ankara tweeted its concern about the statue's fate.