28. INTERNATIONAL NASREDDIN HODJA CARTOON CONTEST


28. ULUSLARARASI NASREDDIN HOCA KARIKATÜR YARISMASI

Koþullar

a) Yarýþma bütün dünya karikatürcülerine açýktýr.
b) Yarýþmaya gönderilecek karikatürlerin yayýnlanmýþ ya da yayýnlanmamýþ olmalarý aranmayacaktýr. Ancak daha önce baþka bir yarýþmada ödül almamýþ olmalýdýr.
c) Yarýþma konusu serbesttir.
d) Yarýþmaya bir karikatür ile katýlýnabilir.
e) Gönderilecek karikatürlerin boyutlarý 30 x 40 cm’den büyük olmamalýdýr. Karikatürler mutlaka orijinal olmalýdýr.
f) Katýlanlar eserlerinin arkasýna büyük harflerle adýný, soyadýný, adresini, telefon numarasýný, ülkesini yazmalýdýr. Sanatçýlar kýsa özgeçmiþlerini karikatürlerine eklemelidir.
g) Karikatürler en geç 31 Temmuz 2008 tarihine   kadar verilen adrese ulaþmýþ olmalýdýr.
h) Sonuçlar 11 Aðustos 2008 günü açýklanacaktýr.
ý) Yarýþmaya katýlan tüm karikatürler Karikatürcüler  Derneði tarafýndan Ýstanbul Karikatür ve Mizah Müzesi’nde saklanacaktýr.
i) Yarýþma karikatürleri bir albümde toplanacak,albüme girecek eserler ve sergilenmeye deðer görülenler jüri tarafýndan seçilecektir. Eserleri sergilenenlere ve albümde yayýnlananlara yarýþma albümü gönderilecektir.
j) Yarýþma karikatürleri ödül töreni sonrasýnda Ýstanbul’da, daha sonra Ankara, Ýzmir, Adana, Antalya, Trabzon gibi Türkiye’nin büyük kentlerinde sergilenecektir.
k) Yarýþmaya katýlanlar bütün koþullarý kabul etmiþ sayýlýrlar.

Ödüller
1-)  BüyükÖdül: 3000$
2-)  BaþarýÖdülleri: 4 adet baþarý ödülü 750$
3-)  ÖzelÖdüller: Çeþitli kuruluþlar›n, dernek, gazete, sanat dergileri, sendika, ajans ve kiþilerin koyacaklar› özel ödüller. Karikatürcüler Derneði özel ödülleri

28. INTERNATIONAL NASREDDIN HODJA CARTOON CONTEST

Nasreddin Hodja, the master of Turkish humourists, lived in Aksehir between 1208-1285. He is partly medresse-educated (Muslim theological school), partly self-trained. Historical information on his life and personality is highly limited, but from what has travelled by word-of-mouth from generation to generation, we understand him to have been a significant folk philosopher, with a view on life as intensely amusing as it is stimulating and giving food for thought. He is so much at one with the people that perhaps it is truer to say he lived his works rather than created them. With a strong social personality, Nasreddin Hodja constitutes the nucleus of Turkish folk humour, with stories emanating from his personality being woven by the people around his character century after century, so that the humour of Hodja has reached our day as vigorous and as close to people’s heart as ever.

The Association of Cartoonists maintains that in the struggle for a more tolerant and peaceful world, humour, in other words “the laughing thought” and its universal language, caricature is the most effective weapon against the thought that does not laugh. Bearing this aim in mind, the Association of Cartoonists is organizing each year the International Nasreddin Hodja Cartoon Contest to the living memory of Nasreddin Hodja, Turkish master of popular humour.
28th INTERNATIONAL NASREDDIN HODJA CARTOON CONTEST
“ One Cartoon , Original Cartoon, the Best Cartoon…”

THE CONDITIONS
a)The contest is open to all cartoonists all over the world.
b) The cartoonists are free to participate with already published works as long as these works have not previously been awarded in any other contest.
c) Choice of subject is free.
d) The participants may send only one work.
e) The dimensions of works should not exceed 30 x 40 cm and only originals are accepted.
f) Name, surname, address, phone number and country of origin of the participant should be written on the back of his/her work. And also a short CV of the participant should be attached.
g) The works must reach the organizing association not later than July 31,  2008.
h) The results will be announced on  August 11,  2008. i) The participating cartoons will be kept at the Cartoon and Humour Museum of Istanbul by the Association of Cartoonists.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   j) The participating cartoons will be put into an album. The cartoons for the album and the exhibition will be selected by a jury. The album will be sent to the cartoonists whose pieces of work are exhibited and published in the album.
k) The participating works will be exhibited first in Ýstanbul, then the big cities of Turkey such as Ankara, Izmir, Adana and Antalya.
l) Participants are considered to have accepted all the conditions.

The Prizes
a) Grand Prize: 3.000 $
b) Honour Prizes: 4 Honour Prizes, each 750 $
c) Special Prizes: Special Prizes offered by various establishments, associations, newspapers, art magazines, syndicates and agencies Special Prizes of the Association of Cartoonists
Address: 28th International Nasreddin Hodja Cartoon Contest Karikaturculer Dernegi, Alemdar Caddesi, Yerebatan Sarnici Cikisi Sultanahmet 34122 Istanbul / TURKEY
Phone: +90 (212) 513 60 61
Phone: +90 (212) 519 90 21
Fax: +90 (212) 527 26 18

WEB: www.karikaturculerdernegi.org
E-mail
: info@karikaturculerdernegi.org

TAN ORAL FIRED FROM CUMHURIYET NEWSPAPER…

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Dear Friends,

Tan Oral, world wide known as one of the masters of the Turkish cartoon, an excellent person and a good friend of cartoonists, has recently been fired from “Cumhuriyet”, the most serious and prestigious left wing newspaper of Turkey where he used to work since 1976.

The reason of this act was due to a plot organized by another Turkish newspaper, “Yeni Safak”, quite conservative and close to the AKP government.

Last week a young reporter from the “Yeni Safak” newspaper, interviewed Tan, on the occasion of his 50’s year anniversary of cartooning in Turkey. And after been interviewee of more than two hours, becoming more familiar with the artist, she asked to see the drawing to be published next morning in “Cumhuriyet”. Tan, naively signed it and gave it to her as a souvenir with the condition to not published it…

Next day, this cartoon appeared on the first page of “Yeni Safak” with an underline mentioning that this cartoon was exclusively made for “Yeni Safak”. Of course the same cartoon took place the same day on Cumhuriyet’s Tan’s corner. Tan protested hardly “Yeni Safak” which published the day after a short note of apologies. But this was a very good pretext and opportunity for the editor in chief of “Cumhuriyet” to fire Tan Oral who was drawing from time to time cartoons against the official policy of his newspaper.

Tan is now unemployed (!). He didn’t jump on any proposal coming from many other newspapers.  He participated with high moral to his 50’s year anniversary exhibition in Eskisehir last Thursday the 12th. But disregarding his up hopes, he hardly needs some support and encouragement from his friends, because he’s still disappointed of the unexpected attitude of his newspaper for which he did during his last 32 years…

Tan is preparing now a manuscript about this recent event, including several articles published in the Turkish local press, all the public reactions, comments and messages sent by his friend and supporters etc…

For your supports and encouraging messages, you can use his e-mail address:

  tanoral@ttmail.com

For your comments and reactions to the Cumhuriyet newspaper:

posta@cumhuriyet.com.tr

Best personal regards,

Izel Rozental
FECO Vice-President General

VLADIMIR KAZANEVSKY VE OLEKSIY KUSTOVSKIY’DEN MEKTUP VAR…

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Dear Colleagues,
one year ago we have seen on some Turkish web-sites the information that we won first and second prizes on the 1ST INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF NART CARTOONS (SUBJECT: “21 MAY 1864 BIG CIRCASSIAN EXILE”) organized by  ANKARA CAUCASUS ASSOCIATION.

The Organizers of this International Cartoon Contest did not send to us some information about this by e-mail or by mail till now. They did not send to us the plaques and abums. We would like to ask is 1ST INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF NART CARTOONS a real International Event, or some private Turkish event? Have you some information about the Organizers of this EXHIBITION? Sorry for troubling you.


Vladimir Kazanevsky and Oleksiy Kustovskiy

 

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Sevgili Meslektaslarim

 

Bir yil önce Turk karikatür sitelerinde 1. Uluslararasi Nart Karikatürleri“ sergisinde 1. ve 2. ödülleri kazandigimiz haberini okuduk. (Konu: “21 mayis 1864 Büyük Çerkez Sürgünü”) Ankara Kafkaslilar Birligi tarafindan organize edilmiþti.

Bu uluslararasi karikatur yarismasinin organizatorleri, su ana kadar bize bu konuyla ilgili e mail ya da posta yoluyla hicbir bilgi gondermedi. Bize kazandigimiz duyurulan plaket ya da album de gonderilmedi. Bizim sormak istedigimiz , bu 1. Uluslararasi Nart Karikaturleri Sergisi’nin gercekten uluslararasi mi yoksa ozel bir Turk etkinligi mi oldugudur.

Bu serginin organizatorleri hakkinda hicbir bilginiz var mi?

Rahatsizlik verdigimizden ötürü özür dileriz.

 

Vladimir Kazanevsky ve Oleksiy Kustovskiy

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BU KARÝKATÜR SERGÝSÝYLE ÝLGÝLÝ BÝLGÝSÝ OLAN ARKADAÞLAR VARSA, ORGANÝZASYONU DÜZENLEYEN YETKÝLÝLERE ULAÞIP, VLADIMIR KAZANEVSKY VE OLEKSIY KUSTOVSKIY’NÝN SORULARINI YANITLAMALARINI SAÐLARLARSA SEVÝNÝRÝZ.  DQ