Adultery as a Criminal Offense May Still Have a Life in Turkey
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Conservative lawmakers rebelled on Thursday and insisted on reviving a proposal to criminalize adultery, even as the Parliament neared completion of a reform package to bring
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Under huge pressure from the European Union, Turkey back-pedaled away from a bill to re-criminalize adultery on Tuesday. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who over the past few days repeatedly spoke
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VAKIFLI, Turkey  - Its foes like to accuse Turkey's ruling AK Party of plotting to create an Iranian-style Islamic state, but many among the country's Christian minority seem to prefer the alleged Islamists to more secular parties.
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Turkey's ruling party confirmed  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&#39;s plan to make adultery a crime may hinder its bid to join the European Union by showing the dominance of ``conservative forces&#39;&#39; in Turkish society, European officials said.
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The European Commission laid out its opposition to plans by Turkey to criminalise adultery yesterday. The proposed law threatens to destabilise Ankara&#39;s bid to open EU entry talks.
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: Turkeyâs two main parties signalled today the government may be dropping plans for a controversial adultery ban that has outraged liberals, unnerved markets and irked the EU that Ankara wants to join.
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Facing a popular outcry at home and stern warnings from Europe, the Turkish government discreetly stepped back Tuesday from a plan to introduce a motion into a crucial penal reform bill to make adultery a crime punishable by prison.
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ANKARA, Turkey  - Parliament overwhelmingly approved Sunday legal reforms expected to boost Turkey's chances of starting membership talks with the European Union after the governing party dropped a proposal to criminalize adultery that EU leaders sharply opposed.
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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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ILICA, Turkey -- For the past nine years, Osman Acar, his two wives, and 22 children have spent most nights inside an 18-by-15-foot tent pitched outside this remote village in the mountains separating Turkey from Iraq.
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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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Turkey's leader, a devout Muslim, talks a lot about morality these days. It's language that alarms secular Turks, who fear the government plans to make religion a part of their lives.
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Debate about reforms to Turkey&#39;s penal code, critical to the country&#39;s bid to join the European Union, has highlighted the relationship between the mainly-Muslim state and the 25-member bloc.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 23 (IPS) - Turkey took a step closer to the European Union  Thursday after EU enlargement commissioner Guenter Verheugen said  he was âsatisfiedâ that a row over Turkey's penal code had  been resolved.
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Chicago Tribune - A proposal to again criminalize adultery, inserted at the last minute in a reform package designed to bring Turkish law in line with European Union standards, may wind up hurting Turkey's chances of joining the EU.
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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.