Professor Emine Evered recently published a new book, Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity, with the University of Texas Press. The book investigates the history of alcohol, its consumption, and its proscription as a means to better understand events and agendas of the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras. Through a comprehensive examination of archival, literary, popular culture, media, and other sources, it unveils a traditionally overlooked—and even excluded—aspect of human history in a region that many do not associate with intoxicants, inebriation, addiction, and vigorous wet-dry debates.
For more information, see https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330319/