Ecevit lifted the ban on what agricultural product?
Cotton
Opium
Wheat
Tobacco
Answer
The answer is opium. Following pressure from the United States, Turkey banned the production and trade of opium in the 1970s. However, in the late 1990s, then-Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit lifted the ban in an effort to curb illegal poppy cultivation and drug trafficking.
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