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...every newspaper, while posters proclaimed: citizen verheugen! welcome to greater europe! Nothing spoiled the fun - not an attack by Kurdish militants on a nearby police outpost during his stay, nor even a last-minute hiccup over a Turkish measure that would have criminalized adultery. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who at first supported the adultery proposal to appease conservative allies, agreed to drop it, and last week pushed a 700-page package of penal-code reforms through parliament. "We have worked hard and we have done our homework," a tight-lipped Erdogan told reporters in Brussels. "There...
...Sept. 6. Doctors at a Vienna clinic where he underwent tests could neither confirm nor rule out poisoning. Join the Club TURKEY Ankara moved a step closer to joining the E.U. as European Commissioner for Enlargement Günter Verheugen, following a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Brussels, announced that there were "no more obstacles" to the start of accession talks. Crucially, Erdogan gave assurances that a revised penal code to bring Turkey in line with E.U. human-rights law would be adopted - without a controversial clause criminalizing adultery that drew criticism from Brussels and threatened...
Gunther Verheugen, Europe's Commissioner for Enlargement, swung through Turkey last week before completing his recommendation on whether the E.U. should start membership negotiations with the largely Muslim country. The plan was to display pro-European values - until Turkish domestic politics seeped through. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced he would press ahead with a new law banning adultery. "The family is a sacred institution for us," he said in a newspaper interview. The measure is scheduled to be included in a package of amendments to be introduced this week. It would impose up to a three-year prison term...
...kinds of people on your list: those we have been fawning over far too long (Pope John Paul II, Nelson Mandela, Bill and Hillary Clinton), those we should not be fawning over at all (Nicole Kidman, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates) and people I have never heard of (Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Jurgen Habermas, Azim Premji?). Enough already! JERRI BENNETT--VAN HOUTEN Anaheim Hills, Calif...
...stops to get to yes. As a reward, E.U. foreign ministers voted to ease Turkish Cypriots' economic isolation, provide j259 million in aid, and open the new de facto E.U. border on the island to Turkish Cypriot goods. But Turkey wants a bigger prize. In Cologne last week, Erdogan pressed Turkey's case with a mixture of mild warnings and warm reassurances. Shutting Turkey out could encourage anti-Western forces in his country, he said, adding that Turkey would not be a burden to the E.U. "but a new stimulus for economic dynamism." Erdogan's desire to join...