Turkish satirical weekly Pengue
in its edition of July 6, which addressed the separate visits of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the newly elected leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu the opposition to a Turkish military positions in southeastern Turkey, and the silly controversy over photographs of Erdoğan crouching behind the sandbags from a defensive position, photographs Kılıçdaroğlu and his party used to label a coward to the Prime Minister. Later she posed in the same place Kılıçdaroğlu, standing this time proving its worth. The absurd controversy, which lasted several weeks, led their respective biting satire, as the cover for Peng, and the caricature of the Turkish football, posing as an image that says the title "Our Honor Roll" up the Kılıçdaroğlu, bending the Erdoğan. This article
correspondent of La Vanguardia in Istanbul, Ricardo Ginés, published in the journal Foreign Policy in English, condensed into a nice reading on Turkish graphic humor and its influence on the Turkish political scene, must be read:
The satirical cartoon and policy does not make puppet head. Erdogan so upset already raised five complaints, as it did to Sultan Abdulhamid II, back in the late nineteenth century. A gender-free thermometer, with origins as old as the Ottoman Empire but as alive and renewed as the last of the game.
A woman with a pig's snout wearing a headscarf or turban, smiling face of a sign marking the direction of "AB" or Avrupa Birligi, ie European Union. In a country in which the pig is considered unclean animal according to the precepts of the majority religion: Islam. It comes in Turkey famous cartoon Türbanlı domuz, Avrupa Birliği yolunda (Cerda with Islamic headscarf on the road to the European Union), created by the hand of the cartoonist Turhan Selcuk, the dean of Turkish caricature, recently deceased. In reality it is a bitter criticism from Brussels to support Islamist-rooted party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), in government since 2002. ( Continue reading on the website of Foreign Policy
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