WEBCommentary - Turkey , Middle East, Paklistan, Afghanistan - A Statistical Analysis of President Obama's renewed Strategy

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"I had the opportunity to see a movie called 'Head-On' about a young Turkish woman, a cocaine addict, who moved from Germany, to Istanbul because her husband, a cocaine addict also, had been put in prison for manslaughter, where her sister lived, and got turned on to opium. Probably illegally imported from Afghanistan. Certainly this movie was fictitious. But that does not mean opium is not in reality flourishing in Istanbul or Germany in one form or another. Turkey is a republican parliamentary democracy somewhat similar to the U.S.'s government and has no restrictions on religious freedoms. You can dress as Western or Eastern as you please without coercion from the Turkish government. Ironically, in terms of religion the country is 99.8 percent Muslim, mostly Sunni. The point being, opium could be purchased or acquired for recreational use in the real world as well. The movie makes the old adage, "there is a thin line between reality and fiction," a true aphorism."