The Turkish PM created a stir by slipping new legislation making adultery illegal in a new reform package intended to bring the legal system in line with the EU.
"The justice committee of the Turkish parliament spent months working on the text of the new legal code, but that hadn't caused much excitement other than among those with a deep interest in the issue. That is until it suddenly became clear that, as part of the new law, the governing AK party intended to make adultery a criminal offence. Günter Verheugen, then European Commissioner for enlargement, is said to have responded to that piece of news by saying, "Is this a joke?" However, it was anything but a joke."
Erdogan, adultery and the EU
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