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Turkey arrests pop singer for joke about religious schools, calls it a 'hate crime'
Singer, Gulsen attends the Ozgur Masur show for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Istanbul at Zorlu Center on October 12, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo by Levent Kulu/Getty Images for IMG) A Turkish pop star has reportedly been arrested on charges of "inciting hatred" in response to a joke she told about religious schools in the country.Gulsen, a 46-year-old pop star in Turkey was taken away from her home in Istanbul for questioning and formally arrested late Thursday after she joked at a concert in April that one of her musicians’ "perversion" stemmed from attending an Islamic school. "He studied at an Imam Hatip (school) previously," the singer said.