Turks retreat on making adultery a crime
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Under pressure from no fewer than six EU governments, Turkey began to back down yesterday on its move to criminalise adultery, indicating strongly that the plan would be shelved.
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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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Turkey moved closer to opening membership talks with the European Union after the country's prime minister assured the bloc Thursday that Ankara would pass legal reforms and end efforts to criminalize adultery.
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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.
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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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EU Commissioner GÃ¼nther Verheugen warned Turkey that proposals to revamp the Turkish penal code, which would include the return of punishment for adultery, should not divert the country from its path to EU membership.
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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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Polling was suspended 10 days ago in a row over whether to include a bill to criminalise adultery. After a week of wobble when Turkey&#39;s European ambitions appeared to have stalled, the end of the country&#39;s marathon reform process is in sight.
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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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Turkish newspapers were for the most part jubilant Wednesday after a government-opposition deal resulted in the axing Tuesday of a motion to make adultery a jailable offense in the country&#39;s new penal code.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey  - Turkey's governing party has shelved a proposal to make adultery a crime after protests from women's groups and warnings from the European Union that such a law could jeopardize the country's chances of joining the European Union, lawmakers said Wednesday.
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Europe's papers praise Turkey's decision to shelve plans to ban adultery.
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Turkey told the European Union yesterday to stop meddling in its domestic affairs as a row over a move to criminalise adultery threatened to provoke a crisis between Ankara and Brussels.
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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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Bickering within Turkey&#39;s ruling party on whether adultery is a crime or not brought Ankara and the EU to the brink of crisis Friday, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan sharply telling the European body not to meddle in his country&#39;s domestic affairs
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The possible inclusion of adultery as a criminal offence in the Turkish Penal Code has sent Turkey&#39;s EU membership aspirations into a tailspin.
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