An artist who made a collage mocking Turkey’s prime minister by portraying him as a dog, has been acquitted by a court of insulting him.<\/p>\n
Michael Dickinson, 58, was cleared by a court in Istanbul after a judge decided the controversial collage of Tayyip Erdogan was art and not insulting.<\/p>\n
The piece, called Good Boy, showed Mr Erdogan as a dog with a stars and stripe leash and nuclear missile tail.<\/p>\n
Mr Dickinson, originally from Durham, has worked in Turkey for 20 years.<\/p>\n
The artist had already been held in custody for 10 days in 2006 after police seized another collage considered to be offensive.<\/p>\n
At the time, he was ordered to leave the country, but was charged when he later returned on a tourist visa.<\/p>\n
The Turkish court said that although Mr Dickinson’s work “had some insulting elements” it could be considered within the limits of criticism and he was acquitted.<\/p>\n
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