EU Forces Turkey to Backtrack on Adultery
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Amid protests from womenâs groups and warnings from the EU, Turkeyâs government agreed to measures that would appear to scuttle its plans to introduce legislation making adultery a crime.
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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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Turkey will pursue reforms to align itself with European Union norms despite a partial freeze of its membership talks, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has said, describing the EU sanction as only a temporary setback to the country's European aspirations.
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Turkey&#39;s ruling party confirmed on Wednesday it had shelved plans to outlaw adultery that had infuriated women&#39;s rights groups and upset the European Union Ankara aspires to join.
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Turkey's plans for new sex laws may hurt its European ambitions
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized the European Union, telling it not to meddle in the domestic affairs of his country.
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Turkey's bid to join the European Union was back on course Thursday after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan backed down in a row with the bloc over attempts to ban adultery in his Muslim nation.
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Turkey cleared a hurdle on its long path  toward European Union membership on Sunday when its parliament  approved a new penal code which will boost women's rights and  punish police more severely for torture.
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The EU enlargement commissioner says  Turkey's plans to make adultery a crime could affect its chances of joining the EU.
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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 adultery obstacle on Turkeyâs EU path, has been removed in the Brussels visit of Erdogan. When he promised to pass TCK, EU lit a green light to Turkey.
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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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Turkey&#39;s government suspended plans to pass the nation&#39;s new penal code through parliament in a possible setback to its bid to start membership talks with the European Union, Turkish lawmakers said.
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The European Union (EU) must admit Turkey in order to show that it is not opposed to Islam and it is not a Christian Club, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.
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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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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 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.