Go, Read: The Guardian On Various Caricaturists Supporting Musa Kart With Vicious Drawings Of Recep



It's pretty self-explanatory. Before being acquitted yesterday, Turkish cartoonist Musa Kart was facing up to nine years in prison on charges brought against him by that country's president, Recep Erdoğan. This was due to a cartoon that Kart did about a significant corruption scandal that gripped the country in late 2013. The fact that that only conceivable, rational objection anyone could have against the cartoon is that the idea expressed was not to the politician's liking is something that has not been lost on critics of the contemptible practice of sitting government officials pursuing criminal and civic action against artists. It's fun to see the artists unload on Erdoğan like this, and him not able to fight back in a potentially skewed arena. I imagine it was also an encouragement to Kart.

cartoon from Norway's Morten Morland
 
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