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
Cartoonist Musa Kart, along with nine of his colleagues from the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, is 43 days in prison today. Photograph and names of the 10 imprisoned Since the fourth day of the journalists' detention, the newspaper has published on its masthead a counter of the number of days they have been in
Although it is not a topic that is high on the media's "news" agenda here, the Erdogan government's machinery of repression is still in full swing in Turkey. During the so-called "great purge" at least 130 journalists have been arrested and some 150 media outlets have been closed down in recent months. Today
channeldraw.blogspot.com.es/2016/07/the-blood-of-recep-tayyip-erdogan.html The url of this cartoon, published on 22/07/ 2016 on the cartoonist's blog Gianluca Costantinithe url of this cartoon, published on 22/07/2016 on the cartoonist's blog, appears first in the court order for the blocking of sites banned by Erdogan's government of 25/07/2016, thus confirming what the author denounced at the time.
I have sent four vignettes for this exhibition about peace, coexistence, solidarity and so on, which is going to be set up in Turkey in January 2016. The first one is from today, the other three are from other years.
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