Could a Turkish court sentence a woman to be executed for adultery as is reported in “King Corn”?
After this episode aired, we heard from three angry people and a fourth person posted on Television Without Pity’s West Wing forum some evidence against this possibility: • “celticann” posted a link: CNN reported in 2002: “Turkey abolishes death penalty” • Cagla Howard also sent us a link to “Constitution of Turkey (article 38 as amended in October 2001) which says “The death penalty shall not be imposed excluding the cases in time of war, imminent threat of war and terrorist crimes.”” and following suggestions she made, we also came up with the following: • BBC (September 14, 2004) “The Turkish government and the opposition have indicated that controversial plans to criminalise adultery have been dropped. “Adultery used to be illegal in Turkey until 1996, when the Constitutional Court struck the law down because it penalised women more than men.” • The Washington Post (September 21, 2004) By Fareed Zakaria: “…even if the adultery law passes …were Turkey to become an E.U. member, t
