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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.