Hüseyin Kalkan | |
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Mayor of Batman | |
In office 2002 [1]–2009 [1] | |
Preceded by | Abdullah Akin [1] |
Succeeded by | Necdet Atalay [1] |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1950 (age 73–74) [ citation needed] |
Hüseyin Kalkan ( c. 1950) is the former mayor of Batman in Southeast Anatolia, Turkey, and a member of the Democratic Society Party (DTP). He gained international notoriety November 2008 after he announced plans to sue Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight film, over the allegedly unauthorized use of his city's name. [2] [3] [4]
In August 2007, British newspaper The Guardian, as an aside in the last of a 25 paragraph story concerning honor suicide in the region, claimed that Kalkan had been awarded damages by DC Comics for using his city's name in their Batman comic book franchise. [5] However, the 2008 news coverage reporting on the Nolan lawsuit (including The Guardian [6]) made no mention of this claim. [2] [3] [4] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] In fact, news sources made a point of noting that Kalkan was not suing DC Comics [13] [14] nor had he raised concerns about infringement before the Nolan lawsuit. [4] [15] [16] [17] [18]
In September 2008 the mayor was sentenced to a year imprisonment for promoting terrorism [19] for which in 2019 the European Court of Human Rights sentenced Turkey to pay Kalkan the sum of 3500 Euros in compensation. [20] After the DTP was banned by the Constitutional Court in 2009, he was prohibited to get active in politics for five years. [21]
No one from the town of Batman has explained why it took so many years to take legal action.
Why not sue DC Comics....?
Kalkan is going to sue Christopher Nolan, the director of the latest Batman movie "The Dark Night," not DC Comics, the creator of the superhero.
So far it hasn't been explained why the city of Batman hasn't raised concerns before, as the character Batman has been around as a comic since 1939 and had a series of big budget US films with the character named in the title since 1989.
No one from the town of Batman has explained why it has taken so many years to take legal action.[ dead link]
Of course, one could also speculate the city could have figured this out much sooner with the assistance of Batman, the world's greatest detective.
Where hizzoner has been the past 70 years?
Hüseyin Kalkan | |
---|---|
Mayor of Batman | |
In office 2002 [1]–2009 [1] | |
Preceded by | Abdullah Akin [1] |
Succeeded by | Necdet Atalay [1] |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1950 (age 73–74) [ citation needed] |
Hüseyin Kalkan ( c. 1950) is the former mayor of Batman in Southeast Anatolia, Turkey, and a member of the Democratic Society Party (DTP). He gained international notoriety November 2008 after he announced plans to sue Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight film, over the allegedly unauthorized use of his city's name. [2] [3] [4]
In August 2007, British newspaper The Guardian, as an aside in the last of a 25 paragraph story concerning honor suicide in the region, claimed that Kalkan had been awarded damages by DC Comics for using his city's name in their Batman comic book franchise. [5] However, the 2008 news coverage reporting on the Nolan lawsuit (including The Guardian [6]) made no mention of this claim. [2] [3] [4] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] In fact, news sources made a point of noting that Kalkan was not suing DC Comics [13] [14] nor had he raised concerns about infringement before the Nolan lawsuit. [4] [15] [16] [17] [18]
In September 2008 the mayor was sentenced to a year imprisonment for promoting terrorism [19] for which in 2019 the European Court of Human Rights sentenced Turkey to pay Kalkan the sum of 3500 Euros in compensation. [20] After the DTP was banned by the Constitutional Court in 2009, he was prohibited to get active in politics for five years. [21]
No one from the town of Batman has explained why it took so many years to take legal action.
Why not sue DC Comics....?
Kalkan is going to sue Christopher Nolan, the director of the latest Batman movie "The Dark Night," not DC Comics, the creator of the superhero.
So far it hasn't been explained why the city of Batman hasn't raised concerns before, as the character Batman has been around as a comic since 1939 and had a series of big budget US films with the character named in the title since 1989.
No one from the town of Batman has explained why it has taken so many years to take legal action.[ dead link]
Of course, one could also speculate the city could have figured this out much sooner with the assistance of Batman, the world's greatest detective.
Where hizzoner has been the past 70 years?