EU forces Turkey to backtrack on adultery

Amid protests from women’s groups and warnings from the EU, Turkey’s government agreed to measures that would appear to scuttle its plans to introduce legislation making adultery a crime.

Government leaders had proposed a ban on adultery as part of a major overhaul of the mostly Muslim country’s 78-year-old penal code, undertaken as the 25 EU states prepare to decide whether to begin talks on Turkey’s membership.