A total of 43.9 million cannabis roots have been eradicated in recent anti-terror operations in Turkey’s southeast, depriving the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party(PKK) of around 2.7 billion Turkish Liras in revenue, Interior Minister Efkan Ala has stated.
“We are conducting a total fight against the PKK,” Ala told parliament at a special session on the fight against terrorism in the aftermath of the deadly Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport.
This “total fight” against the PKK includes cutting the group’s main source of financing, he added, stating that 8.8 tons of drugs have recently been captured and destroyed in operations carried out by security forces. Some 43.9 million cannabis roots with a market value of 2.7 billion liras have also been rooted out, he said, adding that “this shows how drug dealing and terrorism have become linked,” Hurriyet Daily News reports.
PKK’s lucrative cannabis fields rooted out: Interior minister
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