Turkish Parliament Called Into Special Session on Penal Reforms
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Turkey&#39;s parliament speaker, Bulent Arinc, has called members back for a special session on Sunday to adopt crucial penal code reforms that are essential to the country&#39;s bid for European Union membership.
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Turkey&#39;s main opposition party has called for the swift recall of parliament to approve key reforms demanded by the European Union and says any further delay could imperil Ankara&#39;s bid to open EU entry talks.
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Turkey was warned Monday that its desire to open talks to join the European Union would be snubbed unless it passed an overhaul of its penal code, and very soon.
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ANKARA: Turkey&#39;s bid for membership of the European Union is back on track after the parliament passed far-reaching penal code reforms designed to improve the Muslim nation&#39;s human rights record.
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TDN- Finally the Turkish Parliament, with the blessings of our benevolent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, convened on Sunday and eradicated a major thorn in Turkey&#39;s relations with the
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Turkey&#39;s parliament passed a revamped penal code that widens freedom of speech and stiffens punishment for torture, a step the European Commission said was needed to win membership talks with the European Union.
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Until recently the assessment was widely expected to be positive, but that has been thrown into doubt by the failure of the Turkish parliament to adopt the new penal code because of controversy over a proposal to criminalise adultery.
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Turkey's parliament adjourned Saturday without passing a package of human-rights reforms that is key to its bid to join the European Union but that stalled in a bitter dispute over a provision making adultery a crime.
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The European Parliament yesterday called for EU membership talks with Turkey as soon as possible, paving the way for heads of government to make an historic offer to Ankara at a meeting tonight.
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Turkey&#39;s parliament decided to go into recess until Oct. 1, after the government this week delayed debate of a law that the European Union says is central to the nation&#39;s membership aspirations, a parliament spokesman said.
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The European Commission plans to delay Turkish accession talks until Ankara adopts a new penal code.
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The European Commission has warned Turkey that it will not start talks on Ankara&#39;s bid to join the EU until it overhauls its penal code.
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The lower house of parliament opened debate Tuesday on legislation that would toughen punishments against juvenile delinquents &#151; a bid to prevent more of the violence that has wracked France's neglected suburbs over the past year.
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The Turkish parliament convened for an emergency debate on a penal code reform set as a key condition by the European Union for possible accession talks with the Muslim country.
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The Turkish parliament recessed until October 1, leaving a penal code reform vital to Turkey's European aspirations in limbo as the EU warned that failure to pass the bill by October 6 &quot;will have an impact&quot; on a key EU report on whether to start accession talks with Ankara.
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Ukraine&#39;s parliament met Saturday in emergency session to begin drafting changes in the election laws to prevent a repeat of the fraud and ballot stuffing of the Nov. 21
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Turkey&#39;s government will probably drop a plan to make adultery punishable by jail, a step that threatened to damage its bid to start membership talks with the European Union, lawmakers at the country&#39;s parliament said.