ABD'li dilbilimci, filozof, tarihçi, mantıkçı, aktivist, siyasi eleştirmen ve yazar Noam Chomsky de Gezi Parkı'na destek için "çapulcu" oldu. Noam Chomsky chanting one of the signature slogans of the Gezi Park resistance. The word 'capulcu' on the slogan at the back means 'looter' in English. Turkish PM Erdogan referred to tens of thousands of protesters on the streets all over Turkey as "a bunch of looters".