How and why has the government got stuck with adultery?

2) After having received great reactions from both the public and the EU, it is the ministers of the ruling party, Abdullah Gul and Cemil Cicek, who went to the leader of the opposition party Deniz Baykal and made an agreement with him on the issue of only making "mutually agreed upon proposals" for the new law.

As it was then obvious that the opposition party CHP was against making a law that would consider adultery a criminal act, we all interpreted "the agreement" as an end of the discussions over adultery.

In fact, the next day Parliament had a long day of voting over the individual articles of the new Criminal Law and both the ruling and opposition parties voted in full agreement over the articles and nobody mentioned "adultery."

But the next day when the prime minister returned from his trip abroad, the discussion over "adultery" reappeared under a different name.

The discussion finally became so crucial that the government decided to pull her proposal on the new Criminal Law totally from the floor of Parliament.

The government herself broke her own word.

The prime minister did not abide by the promise the government made to the opposition party.

Had the two ministers made an agreement without the consent of the prime minister?

Is it possible for a government that works in harmony to break her word so quickly?

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3) There have been 70 new proposals added to the original Criminal Law after it was prepared by the ministry of justice during the past winter. This is in fact a very unexpected and rare practice. Usually, the government discusses a new law among herself and brings the proposed law later to Parliament floor after it has been finalized in the party.

This rare act of bombarding the new law with numerous proposals in Parliament did make the minister of justice angry and he said:

"The law’s steering rod (like a car) has been broken and the law has lost all control."

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These contradictions within the ruling party has been lived in an era where the government has done nearly everything possible needed to receive a discussion date for EU membership.

In fact, EU representatives have on various occasions implied that we will receive a date by the end of the year after the final report to be announced on Oct. 6.

Now the same representatives say that without a new Criminal Law, Turkey cannot receive a date!

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It is my belief that the issue over "adultery" is not only a sincere discussion over "ethics."

Some, obviously those who do not want Turkey to receive a date from the EU, are playing a game within the ruling party especially over those still at least emotionally attached to the so-called "National Outlook movement" led by Necmettin Erbakan.

The thug-of-war is within the ruling party but the ropes are controlled by those who are in favor or against the EU!

At the moment those against the EU are leading!