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Wine production in the Ottoman Empire
first started in 1889. By 1904, total export
volume had reached 340 million liters.
According to journalist Ahmet Cemaleddin Saraçoğlu, '... the rule of Ab-
dul Hamid II provided a massive tavern to citizens'. 126
Alcohol is a very harmful substance, not to mention that Muslims are for-
bidden from drinking it. God says in a verse:
O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on]
stone alters [to other than God], and divining arrows are but defilement
from the work of satan, so avoid it that you may be successful. (Qur'an,
5:90)
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