Fatih Kucuk, the man who set up a cartooning school in Antalya’s Kas town, is not stopping there – he has set his sights on drawing students to Cappadocia
Turkey’s first cartoon school “The Cartoon Mill” teaches cartoon enthusiasts from all ages. Every year hundreds of children and youths learn how to produce cartoons.in the 11th season of Sabanci Foundation's Changemakers Program. He set up the first independent cartoon school in Turkey in Antalya’s Kas resort city in 2016.
He says he went from village to village painting cartoons on school walls from 2013 to 2016. “The well-known cartoons I painted on the walls were usually not from Turkey but other countries’ productions. It saddened me to think there were no world famous characters from our country.” “Setting out with such a beautiful goal, Fatih beats the odds and establishes the cartoon school in Kas where nowadays international festivals are held and cartoon artists from around the world are hosted,” Safkan says.
“We have received tablets provided by participating schools through the [Republic of Turkey Ministry of National Education’s]“Perhaps it was not easy to understand Fatih’s dreams those days, but today when we see the spark in the eyes of the children educated in cartooning at the Cartoon Mill, the stories they produce, and the characters they come up with, I realise that Fatih is an absolute ‘Changemaker’ and I’m so glad he didn’t give up when he faced difficulties and carried [his dreams]...
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