CARTOON COMPETITION PARTICIPATION RULES
• Aydın Doğan International Cartoon Competition is organized every year in Turkey by
Aydın Doğan Foundation.
• The competition is open to the professional and amateur cartoonists from all over the
world.
• The Jury is composed of the international members.
The Jury will meet in November 2019.
• The award ceremony of 36th Aydın Doğan International Cartoon Competition will be
organized in June 2020 in Istanbul.
CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
1. Participants can select any theme.
2. Participants will submit the original copies of their cartoons. Cartoons sent as printouts
should bear original signatures of participants. Photographs, photocopies, etc. will not be
accepted.
3. Size of cartoons should not exceed A3 paper size (29.7 x 42cm).
4. Completing the participation form published on www.aydindoganvakfi.org.tr, contestants
will send their cartoons together with a short curriculum vitae and a photograph of them to
the following address: 

Aydın Doğan Vakfı, Burhaniye Mahallesi Kısıklı Cad. No: 65 34676
Üsküdar Istanbul/Turkey.


5. The Foundation will not be responsible for any damage that may occur during postage or
for any late delivery of cartoons.
6. Award-winning cartoons will not be returned to participants.
7. By completing the participation form, the contestant beforehand declares and accepts
that he/she is the author of his/her cartoon(s) to be submitted to the competition; that
he/she grants license in form of non-exclusive simple license to Aydın Doğan Foundation
without any limitations on location, time period and number including assignment to third
parties in relation to the usage rights of financial rights such as processing, duplication,
distribution, representation, indication and transmission to the public via audio and/or visual
means as defined under the provisions of the Articles 21-25 of the Law No. 5846 on Turkish
Intellectual and Artistic Works; and that he/she grants power to use the moral rights to
Aydın Doğan Foundation, which are obligatory for the use of the licensed financial rights as
set forth in Law No. 5846 on Turkish Intellectual and Artistic Works, and that he/she gives
consent to Aydın Doğan Foundation to exhibit such cartoon(s), to keep them in its archives,
to duplicate and publish them on the Internet or through other media and to use them in any
other way without any limitations.
8. Where the cartoon(s) to be submitted to the competition wins a rank and/or a prize; the
contestant beforehand declares and accepts that he/she is the author of his/her rank and/or
prize-winning cartoon(s) and that he/she transfers ownership of the original or the copy of
cartoon, submitted to the competition, to Aydın Doğan Foundation; that he/she transfers the
financial rights such as processing, duplication, distribution, representation, indication and
transmission to the public via audio and/or visual means he/she holds over the cartoon(s) to
Aydın Doğan Foundation without any limitations on location, time period and number
including assignment to third parties under the provisions of the Articles 21-25 of the Law 1/2
No. 5846 on Turkish Intellectual and Artistic Work; and that he/she grants power to use the
moral rights to Aydın Doğan Foundation, which are obligatory for the use of the licensed
financial rights as set forth in Law No. 5846 on Turkish Intellectual and Artistic Works; that
he/she gives consent to Aydın Doğan Foundation to exhibit such cartoon(s), to keep them in
its archives, to publish them on the Internet or through other media and to use them in any
other way without any limitations; that he/she does not have any right of disposition over
the financial rights subject to transfer and thus will not enter into any transactions with
third parties in relation to transferred financial rights.
9. The Participant hereby accepts and declares that the cartoon submitted for the
competition is an original work, and that there is no right arising from Law No. 5846 on
Turkish Intellectual and Artistic Works on the cartoon belonging to any third party and if
any, that permission is obtained with regards to such rights, and in case a third party claims
a right on the cartoon submitted and Aydın Doğan Foundation is obliged to pay any
compensation or any other amount under whatsoever name due to the use of such cartoon,
that he/she will pay 2 times of this amount to Aydın Doğan Foundation as a penal clause, and
also that the award given to the participant will be taken back.
10. The Contestant accepts and declares that the information included on the
participation form completed for the competition participation will be processed and
transferred with communication and competition participation purposes within the
framework of the International Cartoon Competition of Aydın Doğan Foundation in
accordance with the Personal Data Protection Law number 6698; that even if the application
fails, the personal data will be kept by Aydın Doğan Foundation for the period of time set
forth by the legislation; that the information related to competition participation will be
shared with the jury, press and media organs and other relevant parties; that where a prize is
won or where cartoon is published, his/her information as being author of such cartoon will
be shared with the public; and that he/she is provided with required information in this
regard.
– The Contestant accepts and declares that he/she has been informed before participating
in the competition that he/she can learn his/her rights about his/her personal data and
possible modifications on processing of this data from www.aydindoganvakfi.org.tr;
– That where he/she has any request on processing of his/her personal data by Aydın Doğan
Foundation, he/she can send such request in written with original signature to the address of
Aydın Doğan Vakfı, Burhaniye Mahallesi Kısıklı Cad. No: 65 34676 Üsküdar Istanbul/Turkey;
– That he/she will provide clear and comprehensible information related to the right he/she
requests to use during the application to be made; that he/she will certify his/her identity
during the application to prove that the applicant is the relevant person and will send his/her
identification information together with the application; and that it will be required to share
also his/her contact information to receive the result of the application;
And that he/she has been informed about all of the foregoing issues before participating in
the competition.
11. The Foundation will cover travel and accommodation expenses of the first three
award-winning competitors for the award ceremony.
12. Cartoons that have not received any awards will be returned to their owners upon
written application to the Foundation within 1 year. The responsibility of the Foundation
ends after this period.
13. The deadline to participate in the competition is Friday, July 5th 2019.
14. Jury members cannot participate in the competition in the year they act as a jury
member.
15. The decision to upload the cartoons, submitted to the competition, on the Virtual
Museum belongs to Aydın Doğan Foundation