Salih Memecan, a Turkish-American political cartoonist, was in Columbus for a lecture on the Turkish-European Union Relations from a political cartoonist’s perspective on May 8, 2008. Mr. Memecan’s cartoons were on exhibition at the lecture. The event is organized by SEF, and sponsored by Columbus Council on World Affairs, Department of History of OSU, Middle East Studies at OSU, Multicultural Center at OSU, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures of OSU, and Students for Dialogue at OSU.

 

About Salih Memecan
Salih Memecan is the most popular cartoonist in Turkey. Memecan’s daily agenda includes a political cartoon strip, Bizimcity, on the front page, and a comics cartoon strip, Sizinkiler, on the back page of Sabah, a leading national newspaper. His political animations take place on the prime-time news program on television, daily. His editorial cartoons have appeared in major US newspapers including the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, the Baltimore Sun, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He currently submits illustrations to the New York Times. Memecan received his Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania as a Fulbright scholar (1983).