Turkey ranks last in alcoholic drink consumption, 3rd in drink tax
The State’s Alcohol Policy Monitoring Platform has published Turkey’s unregistered drink consumption data, which it has been tracking since the beginning of the year. According to the table, there were 720 operations for unregistered drinks in Turkey in 2021. As a result of all these operations, a total of 1 million 135 thousand 172 liters of illegal / counterfeit drinks were found and judicial proceedings have been initiated against 3,598 people.
“There is no alcohol problem in Turkey, but we are trying to deal with this problem as if it existed”
We see that Turkey is the last among 47 European countries in the consumption of alcoholic beverages and the third in terms of the percentage of taxes levied on alcoholic beverages.
A tax of 260 percent levied on RAKI actually removes all the question marks on the heads. The data that the most consumed alcoholic beverage in Turkey is beer proves that Turkey does not have a problem with alcoholism, but the actual situation of measures taken show the target seems to be to intervene and make it more difficult in terms of rights and freedoms than to regulate.
