WUNRN News includes recent articles, releases, event announcements,
calls to action, and other updates. WUNRN News items may or may not
indicate direct references to the U.N. Study (E/CN.4/2002/73/Add.2)
Juridical and Factual Aspects. WUNRN reserves the right to post and
edit, as appropriate to the Mission Statement of the WUNRN Program.
09/15/04: Factual Aspects FC.1: Marriage,
Divorce, Polygamy
Adultery a Crime? The Turks Think Again and Say
No
After suffering a wave of criticism from European Union
officials, women's groups, newspaper columnists and finally from
its own members, Turkey's governing party abandoned a proposal on
Tuesday to criminalize adultery. Even so, the party, which has sought
for two years to reassure Turks and foreigners that it had no Islamic
fundamentalist agenda, may have lost important political good will
at home and abroad.
Read
more...
back |
