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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Turkey's bonzai drug epidemic - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Turkey's bonzai drug epidemic

ISTANBUL — On June 23, I was in a taxi in Istanbul that took a wrong turn and ended up in a neighborhood where a group of young men were crowded onto a street corner, chatting loudly. The driver, who had already informed me that he was a full-time physical education teacher and part-time taxi driver, pointed to the young people and said, “These are the druggies, and they are all over these impoverished neighborhoods now. It's gotten worse in the last couple of years.”

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