Go, Read: Musa Kart Reacts To His Latest Court Trouble

There's a fairly significant news piece here about the Turkish cartoonist Musa Kart and his reaction to a recent acquittal on charges brought against him by the country's leading political figure Recep Erdogan that could have landed the artist in jail for almost a decade. I actually don't see the headline's claim in here, that things have gotten worse -- they sound the same, if any characterization of that kind is made at all -- but there are several intriguing conversation points. One is Kart's reminder that this use of the courts was a conscious decision on Erdogan's part. He's right. That's something we do here, treat legal options as if they're competing inducements, and you just can't apply that kind of logic to this case. Another is that there might be an appeal of this latest decision, which seems to me both a potentiality and an outcome, the latter for the fear and trepidation the cartoonist must feel with this kind of thing having over his head. The third is Kart's touching reaction to the support he received from fellow cartoonists around the world, given that his plight didn't really break as an international news story until days before the most recent court decision.

Let's hope that for the future all of the cartoons that Kart feels in the middle of are happy ones.
 
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