[Today's Prayer] Bootleg alcohol claims lives of 33 people in Ankara while 20 people are hospitalized in intensive care

In the capital city of Turkey, Ankara, 33 people died and 20 were hospitalized in intensive care after drinking bootleg alcohol.

According to AFP, Ankara Governor Vasip Sahin told reporters on the 7th (local time) that police had seized 102 tons of contaminated bootleg alcohol and arrested 13 people who sold it. He did not give a specific time frame, but the governor's office said through the X (former Twitter) account, "Recently, there has been an increase in deaths due to fake alcohol."

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Turkey is a country where bootleg alcohol production is rampant and bootleg alcohol is often mixed with the toxic substance methanol, and such accidents occur frequently.

Turkey, a nominally secular country, has seen a sharp rise in alcohol prices during the presidency of Muslim President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who strongly opposes drinking alcohol. In addition, the price of alcohol has risen further as the minimum monthly wage in Turkey has increased to 22,104 lira (about 880,000 won). The price of raki, a traditional liquor sold at local supermarkets, is 1,300 lira (about 52,000 won).

Some say that this increase in alcohol prices is encouraging the production of bootleg liquor.

Source: News1

And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.” (Mark 11:17)

We hear the shocking news that many casualties have occurred due to counterfeit alcohol after the current Turkish President Erdogan raised the price of alcohol to prevent drinking in Turkey to change the secular Islamic country to an Islamic leader state.

The world and Islam are making Turkey a house of robbers and a land without hope, but we believe that God has called Turkey as a house of prayer for all peoples. Lord, have mercy on Turkey!

Please raise up a young generation of Turks who believe that the Lord has called Turkey as the house of prayer for all peoples.

May the Holy Spirit raise up a generation of young Turks who place their joy and hope in Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God and are holy and pure like the morning dew, and keep them without blemish.

May the global church take on the mission of spreading the true love and hope of Jesus among the Turkic people, and may the young Turks be filled with the grace of obtaining the truth and life of Jesus by freeing themselves from vain pleasures and false Islam!

Let the Turkic people, who have received new life, become the temple of God who pray for all nations, and let the house of the Lord be established in all 81 cities of Turkey!

As a result, may the church in Turkey rise up as a missional church that carries out the mission of the Lord by sending its young people to all nations!