Albanian cartoonist winner of Ayd?n Do?an Cartoon Contest

The winners of the 32nd Ayd?n Do?an International Cartoon Contest, organized by the Ayd?n Do?an Foundation and considered the Oscars of the cartoon world, were announced yesterday. Albanian cartoonist Agim Sulaj was named the winner of this year?s contest. 

The works of Sulaj, 50, who lives in Italy, have been published in Italy, Britain, Greece and Turkey. He mostly focuses on poverty, environmental problems and the life of refugees in his cartoons. 

His winning cartoon in the contest depicts terror and expresses that terror can hit any country and any person regardless of geography. 

The second and third prizes of the 32nd Ayd?n Do?an International Cartoon Contest went to Iranian artists Mohsen Nouri Najafi and Jalal Pirmarzabad, respectively. 

Also, Alberto Morales Ajubel (Spain), Angel Boligan (Cuba), ?shimaru Hide (Japan), Frank Hoffmann (Germany), Moacir Knorr Gutterres (Brazil), Musa Gümü? (Turkey), Cemalettin Güzelo?lu (Turkey), Jose Antonio Garci Nieto (Mexico), Didier Pizzi (France), Saman Torabi (Iran), Jugoslav Vlahovic (Serbia) and Mikhail Zlatkovsky (Russia) were announced as the winners of the Merit Awards.

Among 237 works 

This year 787 cartoonists from 66 countries joined the contest with 2289 cartoons. The winners of the contest were selected among 237 works by 205 artists from 46 countries, selected by a pre-selective committee. 

The selective committee of the contest, headed by Michael Kountouris (Greece), gathered on June 15 at Bodrum I??l Club in the western province of Bodrum. 

Other jury members included the authorities of the cartoon world; Ercan Akyol, Latif Demirci, Selçuk Demirel, Piyale Madra (Turkey), Bayram Hajizadeh (Azerbaijan), Godfrey Mwampembwa (Tanzania), Yuko...