From: Daily Sabah | Investigations
The most profitable source of income for the PKK terrorist organization is smuggling cigarettes, the recent report by Turkish security sources revealed as the report said that 80 million packets of smuggled cigarettes have been seized by the security forces in the first eight months of 2015.
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Security sources said that the smuggled cigarettes the PKK is trading are Bulgarian-made and they are made to look like as if they were being exported to neighboring countries and are shipped to the Port of Mersin in eastern Turkey and then sent to several spots in Syria and Iraq. A large quantity of these cigarettes are then smuggled back into Turkey from Syria and Iraq as if they were imported.
