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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8787
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/turkey

Adultery will not be criminalised, says Turkish diplomat

Brussels, 16/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - "Adultery is not a crime in Turkey" declared a Turkish diplomat on Thursday afternoon in Brussels, announcing that the part of the penal code reform in which the government had planned to include the criminalisation of adultery had been adopted without that amendment. Nonetheless, over the course of the afternoon, press agencies had reported declarations from the opposition that members of the ruling party (AKP) planned to put the amendment back on the...

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