2007 - 52 minutes "Bloody Cartoons, directed and produced by the Danish Karsten Kjær, is a documentary that delves into how and why 12 cartoons in a Danish provincial newspaper could bring a small country into a confrontation with Muslims from all over the world. It reflects on the limits, if any, to
Cartoon by Seyfi Sahin in the latest GirGir magazine In February 2017, the Turkish publishing house Estetik closed its magazine GirGir, which was distributed as a free weekly supplement of the daily "Sözcü," and fired all its employees. Enlarge turkish publisher closes its satirical magazine for "offending religious values" The publishers said they
Latuff cartoon shared on the internet by Aydin, a "proof" for the prosecution. Turkish actor and columnist Orhan Aydin was sentenced to 11 months and 20 days in prison for insulting Turkish Presidentturkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for, among other things, sharing this 2015 cartoon by Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff on the internet.
Painting by Zehra Dogan (2016) Zhera Dogan was released on Sunday 24 February 2019. Zehra Dogan, a Turkish journalist and painter, announced that she had been sentenced to two years and ten months in prison, allegedly for making a painting depicting the destruction of the Turkish city of Nusaybin by government forces. But
Latest cover of Girgir magazine 15-21 February 2017 Little joke in Turkey with religion, any joke, no matter how silly or white, can land anyone in jail. And so dangerous is satire that, as in the case of Girgir magazine, the editors themselves have applied self-censorship, acted as thought police and shut down
