Cartooning for Peace, citing data from the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA), an organisation that provides legal assistance to people on trial for reasons related to their professional activity, in particular journalists, has updated the status of the legal proceedings against Turkish cartoonist Doğan Pehlevan, who was released in November 2025 but ... Leer más
Turkish cartoonist Öznur Kalender (Instagram - FB) was arrested on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a cartoon, according to media reports including Halk TV. Kalender announced on his Facebook account that he had been arrested and taken to a police station for questioning. The famous cartoonist Öznur Kalender told it ... Leer más
A Turkish court ordered the release under judicial supervision of Doğan Pehlevan, a satirical cartoonist for LeMan magazine. He is the sole defendant in the investigation into his alleged depiction of Muhammad and Moses in a cartoon. However, according to the daily Cumhuriyet, Pehlevan will not be released because he is still accused ... Leer más
In its 26 June issue, the Turkish satirical magazine LeMan published a cartoon in which one character, floating amidst rubble and bombs, shakes hands with another and says:"Salam aleykum, I am Muhammad", who replies:"Aleykum salam, I am Musa (Moses)". The public prosecutor's office seized copies of the issue containing the cartoon and the ... Leer más
After five long years of a judicial process stretched by adjournments, the Istanbul Court of First Instance finally acquitted the Turkish cartoonist Zehra Ömeroglu on Thursday 26 June. The cartoonist was tried for an alleged offence of "obscenity" for a cartoon published in LeMan magazine in 2020 and faced a prison sentence of ... Leer más
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