By Burak Bir
ANKARA (AA) – Turkey seized 43 million cannabis roots worth 15 billion Turkish liras ($2.5 billion) in anti-drug operations in 2019, the interior minister said on Sunday.
In a live interview with CNN Turk, Suleyman Soylu also said Turkey’s anti-terror operations destroyed 2,700 shelters and seized 600 walkie talkies used by YPG/PKK over the last two years.
Turkey has been fighting narcoterrorism, and this year confiscated over 40 tons of marijuana only.
In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU — has been responsible for the deaths of 40,000 people, including women, children and infants. The YPG is the PKK’s Syrian offshoot.
