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Hilal Koylu started her career as a journalist for ANKA News Agency in 1995 and served for 14 years as Ankara correspondent for Radikal. Between 2011 and 2013, she worked as a diplomacy correspondent and chief editor for HaberTurk Television's Ankara office. Koylu has been working as a freelance journalist since the beginning of 2014, and currently writes for Voice Of America and Deutsche Welle.
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A man sells beer near Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 29, 2014. New alcohol legislation has made it more expensive and harder to buy or sell alcohol in Turkey, with critics accusing the Islamic-rooted government of imposing a religious agenda in the mainly Muslim but officially secular nation. Turkey's sizeable secular population has denounced the new laws as repressive, pointing out the country already has the lowest alcohol consumption among OECD countries. AFP PHO](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2017/05/GettyImages-451748080.jpg/GettyImages-451748080.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=-0HBzNLW)
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