Turkey may scrap adultery law
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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
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Turkey's plans for new sex laws may hurt its European ambitions
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Harsh words flew Monday between the European Union and Turkey, which announced it had dropped reforms to ban honor killings, The Times of London said.
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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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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&#39;s parliament is debating reforms to the country&#39;s penal code which would include making adultery a crime. The controversial proposal is part of sweeping changes to Turkey&#39;s laws intended to bring them
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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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A row over adultery has thrown light onto the darker corners of the relationship between Turkey and the EU, says the BBC's Jonny Dymond.
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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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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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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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The European Union has made clear to Turkey that it cannot start negotiations on joining the union, until Ankara reforms its penal code.
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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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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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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&#39;s Islamic-rooted ruling party will press ahead with its plan to criminalize adultery, despite earlier statements that the controversial measure had been shelved, a party member said Thursday.
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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