May 23, 2011 - 17:18 AMT
Marseilles hosts Armenian cartoonist’s exhibition

Sahak-Mesrop cultural center in Marseilles is hosting an exhibition of Armenian cartoonist Ohannes Chachkal. The cartoons were created for Istanbul-based Armenian-Turkish Agos newspaper.

Ohannes Chachkal was born in Istanbul in 1959. Chachkal took up caricature in 1977 and has worked in several Istanbul-based publishing houses since. The cartoonist created an album dedicated to the memory of Hrant Dink in January 2008. At present, Chachkal is employed at Agos, Nouvelles d’ Armenie reported.

The exhibit will last till May 29.