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Turk court sentences pop star to write out lines
A Turkish pop star has been sentenced to write out Turkey's lengthy national anthem along with a five page critique of it after a court found her guilty of casting ethnic slurs at a concert, newspapers said on Sunday.
Seven businessmen from the primarily Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, in the impoverished southeast which has been troubled for years by separatist violence, took pop star Demet Akalin to court over comments she said were an attempt to liven up her audience.
"What? Are you all from Diyarbakir? Did you come from the mountains? I don't understand where you people can be from all of you sitting there staring like morons," she allegedly said at a concert in the COSMOPOLITAN Aegean resort city of Bodrum in 2008.
A court found her guilty of breaking a law banning public insults based on regional differences, social class or ***uality.
But media said on Sunday that Akalin liked the idea and that she had memorised the national anthem since her school years.
"There's a lot I want to write about, because I love every corner of my country," daily newspaper Hurriyet reported her as saying.
BORN (23 April 1972 in Gölcük, Kocaeli) she is a Turkish pop folk singer, former model.
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She used to be in a long term relationship with Turkish national basketball player İbrahim Kutluay. However they ended their relationship when İbrahim Kutluay started going out with another famous Turkish model Demet Şener. In 2006, she married Oğuz Kayhan, a famous businessman, but they divorced in 2007. However they continued living together after getting back together until recently. In the end of October 2008 they ended their relationship again after Demet Akalın declared that her husband cheated on her with his ex Selin İmer. [1]
She also dated with former Werder Bremen midfielder Ümit Davala
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