Nuri Kurtcebe
Nuri Kurtcebe (born January 8, 1949 in Yatağan , Muğla Province ) is a Turkish cartoonist and author.
Kurtcebe's father was an officer who moved frequently for work. In 1960 the family came to Istanbul . Kurtcebe's father died in the senior year of high school. The football star Metin Oktay took over the costs for his further education , so that Nuri Kurtcebe was later able to study at the Academy of Fine Arts of Mimar Sinan University . Kurtcebe was part of the founding cadre of the satirical magazine Gırgır . He publishes there, for example, the satirical series Uyduruk Uzay Hikayeleri ("Invented stories from space ") and the series Gaddar Davut . He also drew for the satirical magazines LeMan , Limon and Dıgıl. Kurtcebe is considered to be the creator of the word maganda , the designation of an uneducated, stupid and gross person. In 2001 he published a drawn novel based on a poem by Nâzım Hikmet on the Turkish War of Liberation .
In 2017 Kurtcebe was sentenced to fourteen months' imprisonment for his Erdoğan cartoons and was conditionally released in early June 2018.
Kurtcebe received several awards for his works. In 1997, 1998 and 1999 he received the Hasan Tahsin Prize for his drawings in Cumhuriyet . In 2001 he received the prize for contemporary education from the Education Foundation ÇEV ( Çağdaş Eğitim Vakfı ).
Web links
- Nuri Kurtcebe kimdir? Short biography on haber7.com (Turkish)
- Turkish cartoonist jailed for insulting the president , Zeit online June 5, 2018.
- Turkey: Judgment commuted against cartoonists , Turkishpress , June 5, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ^ "Turkish cartoonist arrested" , Kulturradio , June 6, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kurtcebe, Nuri |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish cartoonist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yatağan , Muğla Province |