The Results of the 25th International Nasreddin Hodja Cartoon Contest

Nasrccidin Hodja, the master of Turkish humorists, lived in Aksehir between 1208 - 1285. He is partly Medrese - educated (Muslim Theological School),

Todorovic Bobisa /Serbia
partly self - trained. Historical Information on his life and personality is highly limited,


Musa Gumus/Turkey
 but from what has traveled by word of mouth from generation to generation,

Slobodan Obradovic /Serbia
we understand him to have been a significant folk philosopher, with a view on life as intensely amusing as it is stimulating and giving food for thought. He is so much at one with the people that perhaps it is truer to say he lived his works rather than created them. With a strong social personality,

Ralf Alex  Fichtner/Germany
Nasreddin Hodja constitutes the nucleus of Turkish folk humor, with stories emanating from his personality being woven by the people around his character century after century, so that the humor of Hodja has reached our day as vigorous and as close to people's heart as ever. The first contest was opened to young

Alexander Umyarov/Russia
 cartoonists but after then these contests became international and brought alt artists who want peace throughout the world together. But as the democracy recessed in Turkey in 1980. so did the Association of Cartoonists and the contest could not be organized. After a period of 8 years, the international Nasreddin Hodja Cartoon Contest was organized once more. The world cartoonists come together for a peaceful and tolerant world. The works which participated, were exhibited and awarded in the 25th international Nasreddin Hodja Cartoon Contest organized in July 2005 are included in this catalogue. The Jury for the 25th international Nasreddin Hodja Cartoon Contest consisted of nine members from Turkey and five from abroad. They convened at Hotel Armada in Istanbul on July 28, 2005 and, examining 1220 works by 980 artists sent in from 65 countries, they decided to award

Laco Torma/Slovakia
 the Grand Prize  Grzegorz Szumovski's cartoon from Poland. The Jury, comprised of Miroslav Hajnos (Poland), Jun Ochakovsky, Viladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine), Diego Herrera Yayo (Canada), Grzegorz Szumowski (Poland) and nine members from Turkey, Turhan Selcuk Salih Memecan, Metin Poker, Turhan Selcuk (Chair) and Tonguq Yasar, awarded the Honour Prizes to: Ahmet Ozturk Levent (Turkey), Taeyong Kang (South Korea), Jo Urgelles Castaneda (Cuba), Alessandro Gatto (Italy).