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.
That is what a Turkish court has found in condemning the authors of this cover. Two cartoonists from the Turkish satirical magazine Penguen have been fined for a cartoon that has been interpreted as an insult to the Turkish president. According to sources, a Turkish citizen named Cem Safcer filed a complaint with
