دانلود کتاب الکل در مغرب و خاورمیانه از قرن نوزدهم اختلافات، سیاست ها و رویه ها

In November 2006, the municipal council of Üsküdar1 banned the drinking of alcohol on the banks of the Bosphorus. This decision was not unique: since the takeover of the government by today’s ruling party Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi –AKP) in Turkey in 2002, similar bans had been adopted elsewhere. Nor were such bans new: AKP rule intensified similar measures already adopted throughout the 1990s (Gangloff 2015, 182–183). Municipalities introduced bans on alcohol in leisure spaces to address the demands of religious Muslim tourists. What singled out the alcohol ban in Üsküdar was the protest it ignited, which could be interpreted retrospectively as a harbinger of the Gezi protests in 2013. Journalist Deniz Som (1953–2010) took on the municipality on this occasion, and organized a protest which gathered about 400 people at the Kartal seashore, close to the Kızkulesi touristic site.