Istanbul
The spade, launched at a concert in Istanbul last spring, only resurfaced in August on social networks.
The video lasts six seconds, it lacks the atmosphere and the context, but we understand that the singer, turned towards one of her musicians, teases him between two songs under the complicit laughter of the public.
“
He attended a school of imams… That's where his perversion comes from
,” laughs Gülsen, Turkish pop star for a good quarter of a century.
For this joke, for which she later apologized, Gülsen Bayraktar Çolakoglu - her full name - spent five days in prison, fifteen under house arrest, and faces a three-year sentence if judges declare her "
guilty
", under of Article 216 of the Turkish Penal Code.
An already old article, but which has recently enjoyed unprecedented success.
“A joker article”
Its first paragraph punishes "
whoever publicly provokes a part of the people to hatred or hostility against another part of the people on the basis of their particularities...
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