"Turkish policymakers, public divided over capital punishment
18/04/2011
The brutal murder of three children in central Anatolia opens the debate over reinstating the death penalty
By Alina Lehtinen for Southeast European Times in Istanbul -- 18/04/11
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To further its bid to join the EU, Turkey abolished capital punishment in 2002, except in wartime. Two years later, the country made the death penalty illegal in all circumstances by signing the European Convention on Human Rights. "
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