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ISTANBUL : Turkey's steps to promote traditional moral values in students, increase Islamic lessons and open prayer rooms in schools are fuelling secularist concerns in the Muslim country and laying bare divisions over the role religion should have in education.The measures, introduced recently, have fire

The sentence is widely seen as the epitome of the culture wars that the country has witnessed under Erdogan.

Imam Hatip schools have enjoyed Erdogan's favour for years, but a group of graduates have vowed to support the CHP

ISTANBUL (AP) -- A Turkish pop-singer could face up to three years in prison after she was indicted Friday for "inciting hatred and enmity" over a joke she made about religious schools in the country.

The 46-year-old Gülşen -- often labelled as Turkish Madonna -- made the allegedly hateful quip on stage in April, but the video of the incident only became popular on social media in recent months.

A prosecutor has brought an indictment against a Turkish pop-singer for “inciting hatred and enmity,” a charge that carries sentence of one to three years in prison

A Turkish pop-singer could face up to three years in prison after she was indicted Friday for "inciting hatred and enmity" over a joke she made about religious schools in the country.

Turkish court confines Gulsen to her home over her onstage joke about the country's religious schools

Turkish pop singer Gulsen is under house arrest after spending the weekend behind bars for a four-month-old quip about religious school alumni.