The PKK prevents the display of a painter’s works at the Fifth International Meeting of Kurdish Cartoons in Sulaymaniyah

ARK News… Under pressure from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the works of a cartoon artist from Syrian Kurdistan were prevented from being displayed in an exhibition in Sulaymaniyah.

Cartoonist Dijwar Ibrahim told BassNews: “I was chosen as the best cartoonist in Iraq for the year 2023, and I am not someone who has just started working. The organizers of the exhibition (Sulaymaniyah Gallery) asked me to prepare a work, and I sent them an artwork about Yashar Kamal, and they said it had arrived. But when the exhibition opened, my work was the only one that was not displayed.”

Dijawar Ibrahim added: “I contacted the exhibition organizers several days ago, but they did not respond, and I do not know why they do not respond to my messages even though they see them.”

According to the media source, the cartoonist said: “I have no doubt that the work was not displayed under pressure from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and forces close to the PKK in Syrian Kurdistan, especially when a person from Syrian Kurdistan was brought to the exhibition and the PKK said he was a cartoonist, so they removed my name.”

On Monday, May 27, 2024, the fifth international meeting for Kurdish cartoons was held in Sulaymaniyah, which was devoted to displaying pictures of artists’ works about the great writer Yashar Kamal.

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