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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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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Call it a kissing crackdown. Indonesia's government is considering a law banning unwed couples from pecking in public &#151; and harshly penalizing those who do, The Jakarta Post reported Saturday.
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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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The opposition in Turkey says the government has reversed plans to criminalise adultery.
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ANKARA, Turkey  - Turkey's Islamic-rooted ruling party will press ahead with plan to criminalize adultery despite earlier statements that the controversial measure had been shelved, a party member said Thursday.
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Erdogan pledged to overhaul Turkeyâs criminal-justice system by an Oct. 6 EU deadline and scrap a plan to criminalize extramarital affairs that the EU said would violate European standards of equality between the sexes and civil liberties.
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The Turkish government says it will change a controversial law restricting freedom of expression.
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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&#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 from the European Union that delays could hurt Turkey&#39;s chances of membership.
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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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The Turkish prime minister harshly rejected European Union criticism Friday over a proposal to outlaw adultery and hinted the government might press forward with the ban despite warnings it could jeopardize Turkey's entry into the bloc.
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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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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'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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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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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.