Turkey cracks down on drug cartels
Turkey's intense crackdown on narcotics operations is delivering serious blows to criminal enterprises associated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and European drug networks.
Though Turkey has been undertaking the most massive narcotics operations in its history, the program is going unnoticed because of the intense political preoccupation in the country.
The “solution process” that sought to convince the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to give up its arms and come down from the mountains has provided an unprecedented opportunity for security forces to challenge the lucrative narcotics business. Security forces are now launching operation after operation in areas they could not enter before because of terror risks.
