More than 50 people have died in Turkey over the past week after drinking bootleg alcohol. It’s become increasingly popular in recent years because President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s conservative government keeps hiking taxes on liquor. Durrie Bouscaren reports from Istanbul on a worldwide spike in deaths related to bootlegged booze.
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