TAN ORAL 50.SANAT YILINI ESKÝÞEHÝR’DE “KARÝKATÜR MÜZESÝ”NDEKÝ SERGÝSÝ ÝLE KUTLADI…
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:
For your comments and reactions to the Cumhuriyet newspaper:
Best personal regards,
Izel Rozental
FECO Vice-President General
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
