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Rakı is a famous Balkan alcoholic beverage, and is a significant part of Turkey's food and drinking culture, a significant cultural-historical symbolic drink in many of its cities, and also the national drink of Turkey. [1] Alcohol consumption is just above 1.5 litres per person per year in Turkey, which is the lowest percentage in Europe by ...
The 2025 Istanbul alcohol poisonings refer to poisoning deaths related to bootleg alcohol consumption in Istanbul, Turkey in 2025. This included a surge of victims within a 72-hour period in January 2025, where at least 40 people died [ 1 ] and 93 others required hospitalization, with at least 39 placed in intensive care.
Worldwide consumption in 2019 was equal to 5.5 litres of pure alcohol consumed per person aged 15 years or older. [6] This is a decrease from the 5.7 litres in 2010. Distilled alcoholic beverages are the most consumed, followed by beer and wines .
In 2024, 110 people fell ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Istanbul, of whom 48 died, according to government officials. Turkey's anise-flavored national liquor, Raki, is most commonly ...
Under the rule of President Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party for 21 years, alcoholic drinks makers in Turkey have faced an increasingly onerous tax burden and other restrictions, leaving ...
The German Center for Addiction Issues recommends that women drink no more than 12 grams of alcohol per day, equivalent to a small beer or a small glass of wine, and that men drink no more than 24 ...
The 2011 Turkish Riviera mass alcohol poisoning was an event that occurred on May 26–27, 2011 during a party on a yacht voyage of mostly female Russian tourists on the way from Bodrum to Antalya, southwestern Turkey. It led to the deaths of five people, and the hospitalisation of twenty others, some in critical condition, after consuming ...
While most teens understand the negative impacts of drinking a lot of alcohol in one sitting, many believe that consuming some alcohol will not be that risky of a behavior. However, teens who drink alcohol on average consume more alcohol in one sitting than most adults, and nearly half of all teens who consumed some amount of alcohol in the ...