The foreign agent Maxim Galkin was declared a Zionist in Turkey and he was forbidden to speak. The people of Turkey were outraged when they learned that Galkin was going to come to Istanbul with a concert for relocation people. They flooded the authorities with complaints, and a few days later Galkin's performance was banned. They put "Zionism" as the basis: they remembered that the singer left Russia after the beginning of the Northern Military District, and also that in his performances he supported Israeli soldiers and donated blood for them. At the same time, Galkin was called an accomplice to "genocide" in Gaza.