Turkish pop star Gulsen performs throughout a live performance in Aydin, Turkey March 27, 2022. Depo Images through REUTERS/File Picture
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ISTANBUL, Aug 29 (Reuters) – A Turkish court docket dominated to launch pop star Gulsen from pre-trial detention and switch her to accommodate arrest on Monday, her lawyer mentioned, after the singer’s formal arrest 4 days in the past over a quip about non secular faculties sparked outrage.
Gulsen was jailed pending trial on Thursday on a cost of incitement to hatred, after a video of her feedback from 4 months in the past surfaced on an internet site of a pro-government newspaper Sabah a day earlier.
1000’s took to social media in assist final week, saying she was focused for her assist for LGBT+ rights and liberal views that go towards President Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted AK Celebration. A number of ministers condemned her feedback on Twitter. learn extra
Gulsen’s lawyer, Emek Emre, mentioned the problem filed by her authorized group towards the formal arrest was accepted by the court docket. Gulsen was anticipated to be launched afterward Monday and be transferred to accommodate arrest, the lawyer mentioned.
Erdogan, whose AK Celebration first got here to energy almost 20 years in the past, himself studied at one of many nation’s first Imam Hatip faculties, non secular establishments which had been based by the state to coach younger males to be imams and preachers.
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Reporting by Yesim Dikmen and Ali Kucukgocmen
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