ISTANBUL -- Turkey, once a fiercely secular republic, is stepping up restrictions on alcohol as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tries to place Islam at the heart of national politics and steer the overwhelmingly Muslim country toward the Middle East and away from Europe and the U.S.
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Turkey clamps down on alcohol as Erdogan pushes Islamist agenda
COVID-19 ban on liquor sales seen as a ploy to reverse 100-year-old secularism
The liquor section of an Istanbul grocery store is cordoned off during a recent three-week lockdown.
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