Cartoonist Fired After Being Tricked?

It'd be worth a news mention all by itself if the prominent Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet had simply fired its top-line cartoonist of the last 32 years, Tan Oral. However, if this news story contains anything close to the truth, it may be the strangest story of a cartoonist being fired that has ever been heard. According to the piece, Oral was fired as the result of a semi-nefarious plot by another newspaper. The cartoonist was interviewed on his golden anniversary of cartoon-making by a reporter from Yeni Safak, after which a to-be published cartoon was given to the writer as a parting gift. That cartoon was run by that paper as an exclusive to them on the same day it ran in its intended place in Cumhuriyet. This apparently gave the editor of Oral's home newspaper a pretext to fire the cartoonist for his occasional forays away from an exclusivity arrangement.
 
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