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Dorian Jones

Turkey witnesses wine boom, despite government restrictions and tax hikes

Bottles of wine produced in the Turkish region of Cappadocia. © AFP / TARIK TINAZAY

In Turkey, hundreds of new producers are growing the country's wine industry, and its international reputation – despite increasing taxation and controls by President Erdogan's religious, conservative government.

Grapes have been grown for centuries in Manisa, western Turkey. It is here that Fulya Akinci and her Spanish husband, Jose Hernandez Gonzalez, decided they wanted to be a part of the transformation of the country's wine industry.

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