Turkey Rejects Adultery Ban

World | September 15, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00

Turkey's government backed off its plan to outlaw adultery after criticism within the European Union and a march on parliament Tuesday by hundreds of outraged Turkish women. Government leaders had proposed an adultery ban as part of a major overhaul of the mostly Muslim country's 78-year-old penal code, which comes as the 25 EU states prepare to decide whether to begin talks on Turkey's appeal for membership.

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