Posted on 09/09/2004 10:34:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The adultery law is part of a package of sweeping changes to the penal code, which include the abolition of torture and the expansion of individual liberties. The changes are an effort to bring Turkey's legal code into line with European human rights legislation. Mr Verheugen, who has spent the last few days touring Turkey, expressed his concerns in an interview with the Turkish Vatan newspaper. "If Turkey tries to include crimes that are not in other countries' laws in its penal code, European Union countries could interpret this as Islamic law entering Turkish law," he told the paper... [adding] that he was not "defending adultery", but said "Turkey should not give the impression... that it is introducing Islamic elements into its legal system while engaged in a great project such as the EU". "We think that Turkey should join the EU, but not really accepting ... every aspect of European society at present " -- Temel Karamollaoglu, Islamist Saadet party
Women's groups and liberal commentators have condemned the bill, saying it would be used against women and pushes the secular Muslim state closer to an Islamic legal model. But the main opposition party says it will not challenge it, provided men face the same penalties as women.
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George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
There should be adultery laws....so long as they are evenly applied that is....
AS IF that guy wasnt defending adultery....it probably hit home on him anyway....
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
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