Turk Ruling Party Confirms Adultery Plan Shelved
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Turkey&#39;s ruling party confirmed on Wednesday it had shelved plans to outlaw adultery that had infuriated women&#39;s rights groups and upset the European Union Ankara aspires to join.
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Turkey&#39;s hopes of joining the European Union were thrown into crisis yesterday after an attempt to introduce a new penal code tackling torture, rape and &quot;honour&quot; killings was shelved amid political faction fighting.
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan&#39;s Justice and Development Party (AKP) may have lost important political goodwill at home and abroad over its attempt to criminalize adultery as part of an overhaul of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK), the New York Times said
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Turkey&#39;s leaders distanced themselves from a proposal to outlaw adultery after the opposition came out against it and western governments made clear enacting the law would
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VAN, Turkey After suffering a wave of criticism from European Union officials, women&#39;s groups, newspaper columnists and finally from its own members, Turkey&#39;s governing party abandoned a proposal on Tuesday to criminalize adultery.
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Excerpt from report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS  Ashkhabad, 16 February: New Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov cancelled the ban of his predecessor Saparmurat Niyazov and allowed Internet in the republic. He also decreed to carry out a reform in education.
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The row over a proposal to outlaw adultery in Turkey has shone the spotlight on the state of women's rights in the Muslim country.
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Turkey's bid to join the European Union was back on course Thursday after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan backed down in a row with the bloc over attempts to ban adultery in his Muslim nation.
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TURKEY&#39;S 40-year campaign to join the European Union is on the verge of collapse after its Islamist Government scrapped a package of reforms aimed at stamping out &quot;honour killings&quot; and torture.
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Turkey&#39;s governing party has shelved a proposal to make adultery a crime after protests from women&#39;s groups and warnings from the European Union that such a law could
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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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ANKARA, Turkey -- The government backed off its plan to outlaw adultery after criticism within the European Union, strident protests from opposition politicians, and a march on parliament yesterday by hundreds of outraged Turkish women.
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Europe's papers praise Turkey's decision to shelve plans to ban adultery.
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BAGHDAD, March 7 -- A small Shiite political party on Wednesday pulled out of the governing Shiite parliamentary bloc that put Iraq's prime minister in power.
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Turkey's president on Friday vetoed a newly passed constitutional amendment that would have allowed the people &#151; and not Parliament &#151; to elect the new president.
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Turkish officials decide not to allow the publication of private diaries of the ex-wife of the country's founding father.
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Turkey&#39;s two main parties signalled yesterday that the government may drop a proposed law against adultery. Several EU foreign ministers have said that the proposal to punish cheating spouses as part of amendments