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AKP Presents Draft Legislation to Curb Alcohol Sales

TURKEY
  • AKP presents draft legislation to make selling alcohol more difficult by mandating law enforcement approval for all businesses that sell alcohol
  • Designed to implement 20 amendments in nine laws, the draft bill was presented as a modification to the rights of elected neighborhood leaders
  • Draft bill seeks to mandate that municipalities will need to obtain approval from law enforcement to hand out liquor licenses, and allows for governors and district governors to regulate operation hours of all businesses that sell alcohol.
  • Reasoning: businesses that sell alcohol were "problematic" areas and that they took up entire neighborhoods and disrupted public peace.
  • Any business that sells alcohol and was opened without law enforcement "approval" can be closed by police & any local government that fails to fine "illegally opened" liquor stores will also be fined.
  • Any business that defies their closure and continues operations will be fined with increasing sums, and banned from operations until they are able to obtain a license
MNI London Bureau | +44 020-3983-7894 | murray.nichol@marketnews.com
MNI London Bureau | +44 020-3983-7894 | murray.nichol@marketnews.com

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