Turkey experiments with cannabis crops to boost hemp production

While cannabis remains taboo topic, economic crisis means Turkey is trialling hemp for industrial use

A bespectacled, well-dressed Islamist recently expelled from the Turkish Journalists' Association for comparing campaigners against domestic violence to prostitutes is perhaps not the most likely candidate for ardent cannabis advocate.

But Abdurrahman Dilipak, 72, is one of Turkey's loudest voices in favour of legalisation as attitudes change and the country begins to experiment with reintroducing the once widespread crop.