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Turkey's Gun Culture: Sales Soar as One in Three Households Owns a Firearm

Al Monitor

28 September 2022

By Andrew Wilks

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Nearly 628,000 people possess five-year licenses to keep or carry a gun in Turkey, but many more are thought to own unlicensed weapons.

Timur Demirbas, an Umut Foundation board member and law professor at Yasar University in Izmir, called for tougher law enforcement.

"Unlicensed handguns and shotguns are very common," he said. "It's estimated that there are 20 to 25 million guns [in Turkey] and approximately 4,000 people are victims of crimes committed with weapons each year. Effective punishment is required. We have laws that envisage various criminal sanctions [but] the most important thing is that the controls are carried out effectively by law enforcement."

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