Key Turkey reform bill withdrawn
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Turkey's government pulls a crucial legal reform package from debate  amid controversy over an adultery clause.
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ANKARA, Turkey Sept. 18, 2004 - Turkey&#39;s parliament adjourned Saturday without passing a key reform package because of divisions over the government&#39;s proposal to make adultery a crime, bringing warnings
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European Union countries have struck Turkey off the map of Europe as represented on new euro coins, prompting protests from some lawmakers about a bias against the potential future EU member.
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Turkey&#39;s ruling AK Party on Monday  celebrated its decisive victory in a parliamentary election,  but strong nationalist gains dented its majority and could  hamper reforms crucial to its European Union bid.
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Slovakia's opposition lawmakers withdraw their threat to block ratification of the EU reform treaty.
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ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's government backed off its plan to outlaw adultery after criticism within the European Union, strident protests from opposition politicians and a march on parliament Tuesday by hundreds of outraged Turkish women.    Government leaders had proposed an adultery ban as part of a major overhaul of the mostly Muslim country's 78-year-old penal code, which comes as the 25 EU states prepare to decide by end of the year whether to begin talks on Turkey's appeal for membership...
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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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Pakistan's government bows to pressure and delays presenting a bill to reform controversial rape laws.
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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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The European and American sponsors of a resolution on Kosovoâs independence withdrew the measure today.
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Turkey&#39;s two main political parties have signalled the government may be dropping plans for a controversial adultery ban that has outraged liberals, unnerved markets and
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Turkey's ruling party confirmed on  Wednesday it had shelved plans to outlaw adultery that had  infuriated women's rights groups and upset the European Union  Ankara aspires to join.
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Supporters of a congressional resolution that would have declared the Ottoman-era killings of Armenians "genocide" dropped their call for a vote on the measure Thursday.
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The Senate voted on Tuesday to bring back President Bush's immigration reform bill from the dead, but any of the two dozen amendments now to be debated could kill the deal for this year.
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The Senate narrowly rejected two proposals today that would have upset the delicate compromise embodied in a bipartisan bill to overhaul the nationâs immigration laws.
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A senior member of Turkey&#39;s ruling party has said a proposed draft law to criminalize adultery has in essence been abandoned. &quot;Will there be a proposal (to criminalize adultery)?
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The opposition in Turkey says the government has reversed plans to criminalise adultery.