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Adana Holds Annual Rakı Festival
World Rakı Festival, Adana, Turkey, December 9, 2017 (Screenshot: YouTube)

Adana Holds Annual Rakı Festival

Rakı is a sweetened, often anise-flavored alcoholic drink popular in Albania, Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans. The World Rakı Festival is an overnight street festival in Adana that emerged from a 100-yearlong tradition in the Kazancılar Bazaar where kebab, liver and rakı are accompanied by street music and dances. In 2015, after the governor of Adana said in an interview to Islamist media that he would not permit a festival in which rakı is consumed in the streets, the festival was renamed the Adana Kebap Ve Şalgam (Kebab and Turnip) Festival, but it continues to be known popularly as the Rakı Festival. It is held every year on the second Saturday night of December – this year on December 14.

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