Since the beginning of 2025, more than 160 people have died from poisoning after drinking bootleg alcohol in Turkey. How did going out for a drink become so dangerous?

The Foreign Office has issued a warning to British tourists in Turkey after a surge of alcohol poisoning deaths. Over the ...

At least 152 people have died in Turkiye since the start of the year after drinking bootleg alcohol, state news agency ...

Bootleg alcohol is frequently contaminated with methanol, a toxic chemical that can cause blindness, liver failure, or death.

ISTANBUL - At least 152 people have died in Turkey since the start of the year after drinking bootleg alcohol, state news ...

At least 124 people have died in Ankara and Istanbul in the past six weeks after drinking bootleg alcohol, and dozens more are in intensive care, state news agency Anadolu said Monday.Some 54 people ...

ISTANBUL - Mr Taskin Erduan thought he ... There, he saw an ophthalmologist who quickly realised it was a case of bootleg alcohol poisoning. Mr Erduan collapsed in late January, barely a week ...

There, he saw an ophthalmologist who quickly realised it was a case of bootleg alcohol poisoning ... water bottles from a business posing as a Turkmen restaurant in Istanbul. – 'Alcohol is too ...

There, he saw an ophthalmologist who quickly realised it was a case of bootleg alcohol poisoning ... Speaking to AFP at his laboratory at Istanbul's Yeditepe University where he heads the ...