From the 'Times Online' ....
'SLOWLY BLINKING his heavy-lidded, lazy eyes, Bayhan Gurhan makes a confession: “Yes, I injured him with a knife. Then he died in hospital. I did not mean to kill him.” The deathly silence in the audience is broken by applause. Viewers of Turkey’s runaway ratings hit, Popstar, have forgiven the quirky talent contest favourite for what they now believe to be the terrible mistake of his youth — “murdering a cousin in a fight”. The news, revealed three weeks into the final televised rounds, had shocked the nation and made the front page of the daily broadsheets, but that night the Turkish public showed that they believed the couple of years he served in jail was enough .....'
Full article here. Read what happened to the judges when they tried to get this guy off the show.
