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Prices for alcoholic drinks have increased significantly in Turkey over the past few years due to rising taxes. A bottle of raki now costs around E35 ($38).

If you want a drink with your dinner, you must go to the specialty kiosk or tobacco shop, where walls of the licorice-flavored booze raki, vodka and wine surround you.

Try Domaine Georges Descombes Morgon for $26.99. TO PAIR WITH MASHED POTATOES AND GRAVY. Oh gravy — it’s one of those things you typically eat once a year but dream about all year.

Guests at the Istanbul premiere of a new vampire film were among the first victims of new curbs on alcohol that have raised secularist fears Islamic strictures may be encroaching on everyday life.