When after all their self-defeating and self-abasing reforms, Europe still rejected them, the Turks needed to find a way to restore their wounded honor.

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The request by Judge Abdelrahman Shihab said the singer should be tried for "abasing" Islam and called for a sentence of up to three years in jail.

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