The Russian dope squad reports opium poppies grown in Afghanistan are trucked through Iran and processed into heroin in Turkey from where it is shipped out to Europe and Russia.
Turkey shares a border with Iran so Iraq is not necessarily involved in the flow of it.
That opium is processed into heroin is disturbing for it's own sake but it gets more complicated when the bulk of the Kurdish population in Turkey is in the Southeast, in the same place the heroin is being processed.
Given the trafficking via truck of oil from ISIS into Turkey, it looks like the country is running more endemic corruption of more kinds than anywhere else around.
It's not so much a matter of whether U.S. is on the side of the good guys or the bad guys when it doesn't seem any are good guys in this stinking mess.
The Kurds were the martyrs after Hussein wasted many of them with poison gas but now, seemingly, the same people are heavily engaged with heroin trafficking, one of the longest-lasting terror threats in the world.
The U.S., presumably, likes the Kurds because they're fighting ISIS but the Kurds want an autonomous state also and that's why all the conflict in Turkey. Unknown if the U.S. supplies weapons, etc to the Kurds for fighting ISIS but they could be used in the highly-ironic application of combat with a NATO country in their fight against Turkey.
One hell of a mess.
The news about the heroin highway through Iran into Turkey wasn't new but the connection came just now that's the same place in Turkey where the Kurds live. You can see in the map in the reference much of the Kurdish population is in Turkey along the border with Iran. (WIKI: Kurds in Turkey)
One giant hell of a mess.
This rolls all the way back to Bernie Sanders and getting the hell out of there to provide only the support needed for those countries to work it out for themselves.
There isn't a greater justification anywhere for the indictment of regime change as a gross failure of foreign policy unless you look a short distance away to the chaos in Libya.
Turkey shares a border with Iran so Iraq is not necessarily involved in the flow of it.
That opium is processed into heroin is disturbing for it's own sake but it gets more complicated when the bulk of the Kurdish population in Turkey is in the Southeast, in the same place the heroin is being processed.
Given the trafficking via truck of oil from ISIS into Turkey, it looks like the country is running more endemic corruption of more kinds than anywhere else around.
It's not so much a matter of whether U.S. is on the side of the good guys or the bad guys when it doesn't seem any are good guys in this stinking mess.
The Kurds were the martyrs after Hussein wasted many of them with poison gas but now, seemingly, the same people are heavily engaged with heroin trafficking, one of the longest-lasting terror threats in the world.
The U.S., presumably, likes the Kurds because they're fighting ISIS but the Kurds want an autonomous state also and that's why all the conflict in Turkey. Unknown if the U.S. supplies weapons, etc to the Kurds for fighting ISIS but they could be used in the highly-ironic application of combat with a NATO country in their fight against Turkey.
One hell of a mess.
The news about the heroin highway through Iran into Turkey wasn't new but the connection came just now that's the same place in Turkey where the Kurds live. You can see in the map in the reference much of the Kurdish population is in Turkey along the border with Iran. (WIKI: Kurds in Turkey)
One giant hell of a mess.
This rolls all the way back to Bernie Sanders and getting the hell out of there to provide only the support needed for those countries to work it out for themselves.
There isn't a greater justification anywhere for the indictment of regime change as a gross failure of foreign policy unless you look a short distance away to the chaos in Libya.
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