Turkey ready to enact its penal code reforms
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BRUSSELS Turkey moved closer to opening membership talks with the European Union on Thursday after it said it would pass penal code reforms and was abandoning a clause that would have criminalized adultery.
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TURKEY has convinced Brussels it is ready to start negotiating membership of the European Union, opening the way for a transformation of Europe.
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ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey&#39;s Islamic-rooted ruling party was planning to introduce a proposal to criminalize adultery despite earlier statements that the controversial measure had been shelved, Turkish media reported Thursday.
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The Turkish parliament will meet in extraordinary session on Sunday to debate a delayed penal code reform which is key to Ankara&#39;s prospects of joining the EU, State Minister Mehmet Aydin said Thursday.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan vowed to press on with reforms to turn his secular, Muslim country into a modern democracy on a par with its European neighbors after a fresh election victory.
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The Turkish parliament on September 26 voted overwhelmingly to bring the country's Penal Code in line with European Union democracy standards.
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Turkey &#39;s developments on penal reform have been put on hold as its parliament goes into recess. Turkish parliament went into recess on Saturday until 1 October, leaving a crucial penal code reform package
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The Turkish Parliament on Sunday approved a revision of the country&#39;s penal code, after the government dropped a proposal to criminalize adultery.
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ANKARA: Turkey is hoping to attract $15 billion of foreign investment between 2005 and 2007 through reforms designed to overhaul its economy and ease the country&#39;s entry into
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged Friday to draft a new, liberal constitution and focus on reforms to strengthen both the economy and Ankara&#39;s bid to join the European Union.
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Turkey's ruling AK Party and opposition MPs are to present a plan to ease the headscarf ban in universities.
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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.
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Turkey&#39;s ruling party and the main opposition party said on Tuesday they had agreed to present key amendments to the penal code as a joint proposal, signaling that controversial plans to ban adultery may be dropped.
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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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ANKARA, Turkey - Parliament voted overwhelmingly Sunday to approve penal code reforms aimed at boosting Turkey's chances of starting membership talks with the European Union.    The special session came just days after Turkish leaders shelved an effort by government lawmakers to criminalize adultery, a demand that had upset EU officials and Turkish women's groups and human rights activists...
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Parliament voted overwhelmingly Sunday to approve penal code reforms aimed at boosting Turkey's chances of starting membership talks with the European Union.
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ANKARA, Turkey - A special session of parliament approved legal reforms Sunday aimed at opening the way for Turkey to begin membership talks with the European Union after the governing party dropped a proposal to criminalize adultery, a plan that had upset EU leaders.    The vote came before an Oct...