"Booze enters Turkey's political battlefield
By Burak Akinci (AFP) – 4 hours ago
ANKARA — Braving snowy sub-zero weather, hundreds of people gathered in downtown Ankara at the weekend for an unprecedented anti-government protest, brandishing not flags and banners but... beer cans and glasses of champagne.
The so-called 'drinking action' -- held also in other major cities -- was triggered by a regulation introducing stringent rules on alcohol sales that raised alarm among secular urban Turks that the Islamist-rooted government is targeting their liberal lifestyle."
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