September 07, 2004

Defending Marriage and the Family - Turkish Style

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has announced plans to outlaw adultery (though supposedly charges would only be filed if the wife or husband filed a complaint). This is presumably being proposed to please Erdogan's AKP party (the main Islamist party in the country), but the timing strikes me as somewhat odd - bright-lining a major cultural split between Turkey and several members of the EU just 3 month's before the EU's decision on whether or not to open talks with Turkey about it becoming a member state. It's also interesting to note that this kind of law is being passed in what many Western observers point to as the model Islamic democracy. Is this really what we're shooting for in wanting to transform the Middle East? Posted by armand at September 7, 2004 02:06 PM | TrackBack | Posted to International Affairs


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