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- AUGUST 5, 2002DEATH PENALTY
France hailed the ground-breaking reforms adopted by...
France hailed the ground-breaking reforms adopted by Turkey's parliament on August 3, including the abolition of the death penalty
- AUGUST 5, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev said that the decisions...
Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev said that the decisions of the Turkish parliament on the eve of the country's accession to the European Union [to abolish the death penalty, air TV programmes in Kurdish and others] were "very important"
- AUGUST 5, 2002DEATH PENALTY
The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Acting Chairman...
The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Acting Chairman Ismail Kose criticized MHP's partners in the government coalition who supported the approval of the EU bill abolishing the death penalty for terrorist crimes, and claimed that their purpose was to save
- AUGUST 5, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Athens praised as a positive step several high-profile...
Athens praised as a positive step several high-profile reforms approved by Turkey's national assembly on August 3, including the abolition of the death penalty in peacetime
- AUGUST 5, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Deputy Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz during a meeting...
Deputy Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz during a meeting with the representatives of EU countries, said: "In a country that has suffered so much from terrorism and lost more than thirty thousand of its citizens to terror, at a time when separatist terrorism is
- AUGUST 5, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Turkish National Defence Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu...
Turkish National Defence Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu said the [negative] reaction of the relatives of the martyrs to the abolishment of death sentence was rightful
- AUGUST 5, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Turkey's passage of sweeping human rights reforms has...
Turkey's passage of sweeping human rights reforms has earned it the right to begin European Union membership talks, the country's top bureaucrat for EU affairs Volkan Vural said
- AUGUST 5, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that the abolition...
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that the abolition of the death penalty would not bring any changes to the imprisonment of Abdullah Ocalan, the head of the terrorist organization, on Imrali Island, and he would continue to be held there for securit
- AUGUST 5, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Kurdistan Worker's Party supporters in Azerbaijan received...
Kurdistan Worker's Party supporters in Azerbaijan received the news of the commutation of [jailed leader] Abdullah Ocalan's death sentence with great joy, following the Turkish Parliament's vote to abolish the death sentence for terrorism, Azerbaijani new
- AUGUST 4, 2002IraqDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia beheaded an Iraqi man for kidnapping a...
Saudi Arabia beheaded an Iraqi man for kidnapping a Saudi national for ransom, the Saudi Press Agency reported
- AUGUST 4, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia beheaded an Iraqi man for kidnapping a...
Saudi Arabia beheaded an Iraqi man for kidnapping a Saudi national for ransom, the Saudi Press Agency reported
- AUGUST 4, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Turkey's Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit called upon the...
Turkey's Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit called upon the European Union (EU) to set a date for the start of accession talks after lawmakers adopted a package of democracy reforms demanded by the EU