Turkish pop star jailed over joke released to house arrest ...Kuwait

An Istanbul court Monday ordered the release pending trial of one of Turkey's biggest pop stars, after her jailing over a religious joke sparked an outcry among fans and government foes. Singer Gulsen Bayraktar Colakoglu, 46, who uses her first name on stage, was jailed last Thursday on charges of "inciting hatred" over a quip about religious schools. Although she made the joke on stage in April, it went viral on social media after being re-posted by a pro-government daily last week. Top members of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamic-rooted party then voiced moral outrage, turning her joke into another divisive issue roiling the polarised country 10 months before

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