By Hatice Ozdemir Tosun</p> <p>ANTALYA, Turkey (AA) – Turkey's interior minister on Sunday said the PKK terror group earns $1.5 billion annually from drugs.</p> <p>"The revenue PKK earns from drugs annually is $1.5 billion […] PKK is an organization [involved in] human smuggling and drug trafficking. Even the U.S. has confessed this reality in official reports," Suleyman Soylu said at the Fight With Narcotic Crimes Evaluation Meeting in southern Antalya province.</p> <p>Soylu said terror and drugs support each other.</p> <p>"Terror opens space for drugs and provides logistical facilities to it. Drugs, on the other hand, provide finances to terror," he said.</p> <p>The interior minister said the 28 members of the EU seized a total amount of 4.27 tons of heroin in 2016.</p> <p>"The amount we [Turkey] seized alone in 2017 was 15 tons and 17.9 tons in 2018," he added.</p> <p>In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — recognized as a terrorist group by Turkey, the U.S., and the EU — has been responsible for the deaths of some 40,000 people.