The representative of advertising agency M.A.R.K.A, which produced a shampoo commercial using Adolf Hitler to promote their product, said they stopped running the commercial due to society’s intense reaction.
Company owner Hulusi Derici told the Hürriyet Daily News they stood behind their commercial, but decided to stop running it after the backlash.
“If Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was giving a speech instead of Adolf Hitler in the commercial, people would to react as if we were mocking him. When it is Hitler, they say we are promoting [him],” Hulusi Derici told the Daily News yesterday.
Derici said the ad was making fun of Hitler and not praising him.
