Posted on 11/16/2008 12:26:36 AM PST by Cindy
Istanbul Police said 222 kg of heroin, 184 kg of hashish, 2 kg of cocaine and thousands of synthetic pills were confiscated in 141 operations in several parts of the metropolis.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldbulletin.net ...
Police said the drug dealer was allegedly working on behalf of the PKK."
You’d think “Midnight Express” would scare the drug dealers straight in Turkey... guess not.
Every night before we pulled into a port of call while I was in the Navy back in the early 80’s they’d show “Midnight Express” over the ship’s CCTV.
Off Topic.
BLOG:
Note: The following blog entry is a quote:
http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/11381.htm
Turkey, Kurdish administration in N.Iraq agree on PKK fight plan
Turkey and the Kurdish regional administration in northern Iraq agreed on a strategic plan involving measures against the terror organization PKK, the organization’s mouthpiece Firat.
Source: Hurriyet (Turkey), November 13, 2008
Posted at: 2008-11-13
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