“INTERCULTURAL TOLERANCE”

5. International Istanbul
Cartoon Festival

(17-25 November 2007,
Istanbul, Turkey)

Dear Cartoonist Friend,

Cartoonists all around the world participated the international cartoon festivals which were arranged by Yeni Yuksektepe Cultural Assosiation in the recent years. The first festival’s subject we arranged was mixed; the second festival’s subject was “East and West”; the third festival’s subject was “Water and Life” and the fourth festival’s subject was “Global Warming” – 30 countries, 118 cartoonists, 281 cartoons-.

With the aim to unite different people and different cultures; we have decided on the theme “Intercultural Tolerance”, for the 5th International Istanbul Cartoon Festival.

INTERCULTURAL TOLERANCE: One of the biggest problems of our era is intolerance. Wars which are everywhere, injustice which exists in every case and problems like selfishness , cause everybody to misunderstand each other. In this case, offers for creating a better world are being sacrificed to intolerance, instead of looking for solutions to problems.

As Yeni Yuksektepe Cultural Association, we related 5th International Istanbul Cartoon Festival with this theme in order to draw people’s attention to the problem of intolerance. Focusing on ‘tolerance’, which is one of our educational principles, we would like to combine the works of artists all around the world; give an opportunity to the artists in order to share their cartoons with people across the world and to provide unification among cultures.