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Turkey Issues 1999
Disputesinternational: complex maritime, air, and territorial disputes with Greece in Aegean Sea; Cyprus question with Greece; dispute with downstream riparian states (Syria and Iraq) over water development plans for the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; traditional demands on former Armenian lands in Turkey have subsided Illicit drugs: major transit route for Southwest Asian heroin and hashish to Western Europe andto a far lesser extent the USvia air, land, and sea routes; major Turkish, Iranian, and other international trafficking organizations operate out of Istanbul; laboratories to convert imported morphine base into heroin are in remote regions of Turkey as well as near Istanbul; government maintains strict controls over areas of legal opium poppy cultivation and output of poppy straw concentrate Revised 1-Mar-99 Copyright © 1999 Photius Coutsoukis (all rights reserved) |