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Gulsen was jailed pending trial on Thursday on
a charge of incitement to hatred, after a video of her comments
from four months ago surfaced on a website of a pro-government
newspaper Sabah a day earlier.
Thousands took to social media in support last week, saying she
was targeted for her support for LGBT+ rights and liberal views
that go against President Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK
Party. Several ministers condemned her comments on Twitter.
Gulsen's lawyer, Emek Emre, said the challenge filed by her
legal team against the formal arrest was accepted by the court.
Gulsen was expected to be released later on Monday and be
transferred to house arrest, the lawyer said.
Erdogan, whose AK Party first came to power nearly two decades
ago, himself studied at one of the country's first Imam Hatip
schools, religious institutions which were founded by the state
to educate young men to be imams and preachers.
(Reporting by Yesim Dikmen and Ali Kucukgocmen; Editing by
Tomasz Janowski)
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