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When most people think of Turkey these days, they probably picture really big domed buildings and complicated politics (to coup or not to coup, that is the question). But not many people know that one of the most popular drinks in the western world was invented over fifteen hundred years, at the end of the Roman Empire, somewhere in modern-day Turkey. Or at least, that’s what the Turks say. Pretty much every country around the Mediterranean, including Greece, Albania, and Lebanon, has a fiery ty …