Affaire ( pr . Aféer) is a French voice for "matter, situation", which in Spanish is used the same but for embarrassing, socially or politically incorrect cases, from marital infidelity to government corruption. A gate suffix has been used since the mid-1970s for cases of public relevance, although it is of journalistic without linguistic origin.
Matter dirty, murky, ugly, as it could be, for instance, the repressions in Arab countries against the civilian population, which could extend to any country that murder their countrymen with totalitarian regimes.See Syria at the moment.
is as a synonym of infidelity