In a series of speeches on Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continued blaming Taksim protestors and all those who take to the streets in solidarity with them across the country.

Erdoğan flew from Istanbul to Adana on Sunday, to attend the inauguration of several facilities recently built for Mediterranean Games to open in the southern province of Mersin on 20 June. He returned to Ankara in the afternoon.

Erdoğan, addressing to AKP supporters who gathered at Adana Airport to welcome him, once again described the protestors as çapulcu (looter), claiming that these protestors had nothing to do with nature conservation. He accused demonstrators of setting workplaces on fire and damaging public property. “No one can teach our government lessons on nature conservation”, he underlined.

“My sisters and brothers -he said, addressing to the crowd- we will not give heed to these people nor let them target our police forces”, criticizing the CHP (Republican People's Party) and blaming the party for having members who maintain a single mentality that blames the Turkish police for their treatment of protestors.

The Prime Minister was protested in Mersin, by thousands of people who took to the streets before his arrival to the city, saying that they didn't want Erdoğan- whom they defined as a dictator- there. Among the crowd were also those protesting against the construction of a nuclear power plant in Akkuyu, a coastal town in the city.

Erdoğan held three other speeches when he arrived in the capital city Ankara Sunday afternoon. Speaking in İskitler, after a speech in Keçiören, he asked demonstrators acros the country to end their protest and to have talks with relevant authorities about their problems and complaints. Threatening the protestors across the country, he said that “However, if you continue like this, I regret to tell you that I will have to use the language that you understand. Patience has its limits”.

The PM also accused protestors of reflecting the country to the world in a different way and shamelessly describing the protests as Turkish Spring. He claimed that the true Turkish Spring, the silent revolution, took place on 3 November, 2002 (referring to the local elections when the AKP came to the power).