Baladi News - Agencies
Kurdish workers Party PKK moved its drug dealing activities to Manbij after being dislodged from Afrin city, Qasioun Agency reported Turkish YeniSafak newspaper.
The newspaper cleared out that PKK planting the drugs in agricultural areas southern the city, and treating it in the factories they seized.
The newspaper indicated that Turkey formed a special team that reached the drugs factories through people managing the drugs trade for PKK.
"Drug trafficking is one of the most important sources of funding for the PKK terror organization, which controls 80% of the drug trade in Europe, and generates $ 1.5 billion annually. The organization benefits from these funds in arming and harboring terrorist elements. For its part, Turkey targeted the organization's funding sources after expanding the fight against the terrorism. The operation of the olive branch carried out by the Turkish army has contributed to the destruction of Afrin, the drug trafficking center of the organization, from terrorists and drugs.