Gunther Verheugen, Europe's Commissioner for Enlargement, swung through Turkey last week before completing his recommendation on whether the E.U. should start membership negotiations with the largely Muslim country. The plan was to display pro-European values until Turkish domestic politics seeped through. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced he would press ahead with a new law banning adultery. "The family is a sacred institution for us," he said in a newspaper interview.
The measure is scheduled to be included in a package of amendments to be introduced this week. It would impose up to a three-year prison term...
