Turkey Black Market Value: $4.489 Billion

World Average: $20.34 Billion

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Data on Turkey Black Market


Earning of the Kurdistan Workers Party from drug trafficking

Filed under: Drug Trafficking, Europe

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) earns between $50 Million to $100 Million a year from heroin trafficking.

Source:  UNODC, “The Globalization of Crime,” Chapter 5: Heroin, June 2010.

Counterfeit Goods seizures in Turkey

From 2007 to 2009, police in Turkey seized 7.75 million pirated CDS and Movies, along with 1.6 million pirated books. The counterfeit seizures were the result of more than 9,500 police operations that resulted in over 10,000 arrests.

Source: “Turkish police seized millions of bootleg CDs, books,” World Bulletin, November 29, 2009.

Market value of commercial sex industry in Turkey

Filed under: Europe, Humans, Prostitution

The illegal brothels that make up the commercial sex industry in Turkey generates over $4 Billion a year.

Source: E. Benjamin Skinner, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern Slavery, (New York: Free Press, 2008), page 169.

Price of Ecstasy in Europe

Filed under: Drug Trafficking, Europe

Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Ecstasy in Europe.

Country Wholesale Price
(per thousand tablets)
Retail Price
(per tablet)
Austria 5,481 10.3
Czech Republic 5,453.5 11
Denmark 2,757.6 7.4
Finland 5,589.4 21.9
France 2,201.6 9.6
Germany 2,532.2 8.4
Greece NA 25.1
Hungary 1,510.9 6.6
Ireland NA 13.7
Italy 4,453.3 25.7
Netherlands 4,110.7 3.5
Norway 13,702.4 48
Poland 1,452.5 6.2
Russia 30,625 44.8
Spain NA 14.6
Sweden 4,028.8 14.8
Switzerland NA 16.7
Turkey 3,425.6 8.2
United Kingdom 1,829.2 6

Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.

Price of Heroin in Europe

Filed under: Drug Trafficking, Europe

Price is in US Dollars and represent the typical price of Heroin in Europe

Country Wholesale Price
(per kilogram)
Retail Price
(per gram)
Austria 54,809 99.3
Czech Republic 41,449 54.8
Denmark (No.4) 64,344.2 165.5
Finland 54,809 150.7
France (No.4) 41,107 68.5
Germany 25,809.8 47.7
Greece 19,450 75.3
Hungary (No.4) 56,839 NA
Ireland 33,967 274
Italy (No.4) 52,069.1 89.2
Netherlands 16,956.7 32.9
Norway 58,235.1 239.8
Poland 20,553.6 77.4
Russia (No.4)a 39,458.3 96.9
Spain 47,670.3 85.9
Sweden 37,059 91.6
Switzerland 23,179.9 41.8
Turkey 8,564 19.9
Ukraine (No.4) 35,000 90
United Kingdom 27,163 100.6

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Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.

Turkey main source of counterfeit food products

Turkey was the main source of counterfeit food products seized by European Union custom agents in 2006.

Source: European Union, “2006 customs seizures of counterfeit goods – Frequently Asked Questions,” Press Release, May 31, 2007.

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