yüce başbakanımız tayyib erdoğan'ı, tezkere ve ardılındaki olaylardaki amerikancı tutumu nedeniyle bir kolajına alet eden, bu kolajını istanbul'daki bir sergide yayınlaması nedeniyle de serginin kapatılmasına sebep olan ve 3 yıllık hapis cezası istemiyle mahkemelere düşen, yeditepe üniversiteinde senelerdir ingilizce öğretmenliği yapan "post modern" sanatçı.
kendileri savaş karşıtı sanat hareketlerinde saygı duyulan bir yere sahiptir ve uzun süredir savaş karşıtı resim, kolay, karikatür gibi eserler vermektedir. 56 yaşındadır.
"stuckist" adlı savaş karşıtı hareketin önde gelen isimlerinden michael dickinson'un sitesine, http://yabanji.tripod.com/ adresinden ulaşılabiliyor.
The Sunday Times, Agence France Press, artinfo.com, wikinews,UK yahoo news,iafrica.com,lycos news,Middle East Times,Mail & Guardian online` sitelerinde artık dünyaya mal olmuş bir olayın baş kahramanıdır. ilgili gazeteler ve sitelerce çarşaf çarşaf yayınlanan kolaj çalışması ile * artık araya girmesi beklenen Blair sayesinde herhalde ceza almayacaktır.
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Turkish prosecutors are investigating an English artist for exhibiting a collage that depicts Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a dog receiving a prize in a pet show from U.S. President George W. Bush.
Michael Dickinson, a long-time resident of Istanbul, displayed the collage in March without permission from the organizers of an Istanbul show dedicated to peace along with other -- authorized -- works themed mostly on Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and opposition to the war in Iraq.
"It came to me in a flash. I thought, 'Damn the consequences, I must put that picture up'," Dickinson told Agence France-Presse.
After the curator of the exhibit was charged with "insulting the dignity of the prime minister," Dickinson wrote to the court claiming responsibility and is now himself being investigated on the same charges.
If indicted, he will stand trial and risk one to three years in jail.
The British art movement Stuckism, to which Dickinson belongs, condemned the probe as an "intolerable" repression of freedom of expression in a country seeking to join the European Union.
It also wrote to Blair, asking him to put pressure on the Turkish authorities to drop the case.
Last year, Erdoğan sued a newspaper for publishing a cartoon depicting him as a cat; he later sued a humor magazine that protested against the lawsuit by running a cover depicting the prime minister as a variety of animals.
The lawsuits prompted critics to question Erdogan's declared commitment to freedom of expression.
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