This nation has increased its taxes on beer by 450% over the past two years; similar hikes have occurred on all alcoholic beverages, with the exception of raki. Finance Minister Unakitan claims that these are not morality measures but the easiest way to convince this nation's parliament, the TBMM, to pass the laws necessary to please the IMF. Many fear, however, that the Justice and Development party of Prime Minister Recip Erdogan is attempting to impose Islamic law. For ten points, name this EU candidate, decried as innapropriate for membership in "Christian Europe" by Pope Benedict XVI, des
This nation has increased its taxes on beer by 450% over the past two years; similar hikes have occurred on all alcoholic beverages, with the exception of raki. Finance Minister Unakitan claims that these are not morality measures but the easiest way to convince this nation's parliament, the TBMM, to pass the laws necessary to please the IMF. Many fear, however, that the Justice and Development party of Prime Minister Recip Erdogan is attempting to impose Islamic law. For ten points, name this EU candidate, decried as innapropriate for membership in "Christian Europe" by Pope Benedict XVI, despite the militant separation between state and Islam in place since the days of Mustafa Kemal.
This nation has increased its taxes on beer by 450% over the past two years; similar hikes have occurred on all alcoholic beverages, with the exception of raki.
Republic of {Turkey}; or {Turkiye} Cumhuriyeti