Turkey passes law limiting military courts

2009/06/27 08:14:26 @Reuters: International News

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament has passed legislation aimed at meeting European Union membership criteria to ensure military personnel are tried in civilian courts during peacetime rather than in military courts. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=V-WxckmKyRU:hgTvQBfHRos:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=V-WxckmKyRU:hgTvQBfHRos:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=V-WxckmKyRU:hgTvQBfHRos:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=V-WxckmKyRU:hgTvQBfHRos:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=V-WxckmKyRU:hgTvQBfHRos:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/V-WxckmKyRU" height="1" width="1"/
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