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UK artist freed after 'humiliating' Turkish PM
"A Turkish court on Thursday acquitted a British artist who risked up to two years in jail for his collage depicting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a dog, a report said.
"The court ruled that the work by Michael Dickinson was a 'political warning and criticism delivered through art... even though it had insulting and humiliating elements,' the Anatolia news agency said.
"Dickinson, a long-time resident of Istanbul, displayed the collage -- showing Erdogan as a dog receiving a prize in a pet show from U.S. President George W. Bush -- at a 2006 exhibition here dedicated to peace. [...]"
Source: AFP, Alarabiya.net (Dubai-based, Saudi-owned), September 26, 2008
Posted at: 2008-09-27
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