Bootleg

Four bootleg booze makers have been sentenced to 16 years in prison on murder charges for illegally producing and selling alcohol which caused a number of deaths six years ago in the northwestern province of Bursa.

Turkish police have seized bootleg alcohol hidden in pressure cookers along with other illicit items found in a workplace in the southern province of Adana. 

A total of 10 people were detained in an early morning police operation on 22 separate locations in Adana on Dec. 22, Anadolu Agency reported. 

More than 400 bottles of bootleg booze have been seized in the Aegean province of ?zmir, with three suspects detained for producing counterfeit drinks.

The number of people who have died after drinking bootleg alcohol in the Aegean province of ?zmir has risen to 11, as three people hospitalized because of bootleg alcohol poisoning could not be saved.

Thousands of liters of bootleg alcohol have been seized in a police raid of an illegal production facility in the northwestern province of Tekirda?, the state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

?zmir police have arrested four people for their involvement in the production and sale of bootlegged alcohol after eight people were killed and dozens more were hospitalized in the western province. 

Z.G., 44, E.Ö., 23, Ç.M.F., 39, and O.Y., 23, were arrested by a court while nine others were released pending trial without arrest. 

The number of people who have died from bootleg alcohol poisoning in Turkey's Aegean province of ?zmir has risen to eight.

The eight people who have died so far from counterfeit rak? in ?zmir were identified as Seçgin Dengiz, Ali Ulutürk, Alem Pena Çandar, Ömer Akgün Yüngeli?, Özkan Yaman, Köksal Çetin, Birol Bacakl? and Cesur Artan.

A husband and wife in the Aegean Turkish province of ?zmir suspected of selling bootleg alcohol that killed three people were arrested Nov. 26, while one survivor said he would continue to drink counterfeit products, since legal alcohol was too expensive. 

Turkey's counterfeit rak? crisis has continued to take lives, with three people killed in ?zmir and at least seven others poisoned by bootleg booze. Police, meanwhile, have detained five people suspected of selling and producing the bootleg alcohol. 

Turkish police have destroyed 13,000 bottles of bootleg alcohol and 2.5 million packets of smuggled cigarettes seized in operations staged since August this year.