With the Law 6487, published at the Official Gazette dated 11/06/2013 and numbered 28674, some amendments were made to the Law 4250 of the spirits and alcoholic beverages Monopoly Act. Pursuant to 8th paragraph of Article 2 of the Law numbered 6487, except for those which are produced for export, written warning messages in Turkish shall be put on the containers of alcoholic beverages. These warning messages can also be in the shape of picture, figure or graphic. Alcoholic beverages without warning messages cannot be supplied and sold. The mentioned Law entered into force on June 11, 2013. According to the Law, secondary legislation concerning aforementioned paragraph of Article 2, has to enter into force within 2 months after the publication of the Law, that is, as of August 11, 2013. For this reason, the Communiqué on Warning Messages Placed on Containers of Alcoholic Beverages was prepared. Mentioned Communiqué regulates the principles of using warning messages to prevent alcohol consumptionwhile pregnant and while driving and about the prohibition to sell alcoholic beverages to minors. With the Communiqué, one written and three graphic messages have been prepared to be used on the container of alcoholic beverages. Also, fonts, font sizes, location of the warnings are stated within the Communiqué taking into account various container sizes. According to the Communiqué, one written and 3 graphic messages have to be applied on all inner and outer surfaces of the containers…