Context: Hideo Kojima has been a guest star in this year’s Lucca Comics & Games in Italy.

There he met with ZeroCalcare, an appreciated italian comic artist who, among the others wrote a very good visual novel titled Kobane Calling, a depiction of his travel to Rojava to meet the kurdish resistance against ISIS.

They took a picture together, with Kojima showing the japanese edition of Kobane Calling and Kojima put this on his social media.

Then, the turkish nationalists protested against Kojma because they ranked YPG fighters as “terrorists”, to the point of asking Kojima to be arrested… As a result, Kojima removed the picture from his social media.

(Sorry for the social media post, but all other sources were either in Italian or from Turkish sites)