Don't hold your breath!

It is always useful to speak plainly.

Last week, we asked whether the PKK would give up the billions of dollars it has earned from the drug trade it has conducted for decades, even if it were to dissolve itself as the government is trying to push us to believe!

Thinking that it would give it up would be beyond naive.

Let us try to explain as best we can.

It is common knowledge who is behind every dirty business in the world.

Therefore, they will not allow the traffic to be disrupted at the most critical point of the drug route stretching from Afghanistan to Europe.

Of course, the PKK's drug trade is not outside the knowledge and control of the CIA, just as it is in other parts of the world.

Let us underline this with a thick pen!

In 2007, I went to Pakistan as a guest of the government. It had been 5 years since America invaded Afghanistan, and the turmoil in the region had not yet subsided.

Pakistan was standing on a fine line between America and the Taliban; while it appeared to be cooperating with the CIA and the Pentagon on one hand, it was maintaining close contact with the Taliban on the other.

As far as I understood, the Pakistani administration was fragmented.

There was great chaos because there was no definitive consensus within the government on who to cooperate with and how.

The bureaucracy and the political wing were singing from different hymn sheets.

The security bureaucracy was not of a single color either.

That is exactly what I gathered from the briefings held by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) over two days.

What one official said one day could contradict what another official said the next.

At the opening of the meeting, a young intelligence brigadier general gave detailed information about the developments that emerged with the American invasion.

Then the conversation turned to the drug trade in Afghanistan. At first, he did not want to comment much on this, but when pressed, he began to speak, trying as much as possible not to enter dangerous waters.

The Americans had taken a hand in this matter in the very first days of the occupation.

The CIA had formed special teams and knocked on the door of the ISI. Knowing that not a bird flies in Afghanistan without the knowledge of Pakistani intelligence, they had made contact with the warlords who held opium production with the reluctant cooperation of the ISI.

There was a huge pie on the table.

Almost 90 percent of the world's opium production was in Afghanistan's hands. The CIA's first job was to bring this under control. They had allowed the local population to produce opium and had given the green light to the warlords to run the drug business in exchange for standing with America against the Taliban.

Of course, by taking a hefty share of the revenue!

The Americans' concern was, 'Let us eat the money, not the Taliban.' Naturally, this did not suit Pakistan. Because for Pakistan, the Taliban was not only a strategic tool used to limit the influence of Iran and India in the region, but also a good source of income.

When the Americans sat at the head of the tap with the occupation, Pakistan was left empty-handed.

The CIA settled into the head of this business without wasting any time; it took control of every stage, from opium cultivation to heroin production, and from the shipment of the 'goods' to their marketing in Western countries.

Then I asked about the PKK's place in the drug route stretching from Afghanistan to the West.

He gave no details. Either he really didn't know, or he remained silent because the matter would touch upon Pakistan's relations with Turkey.

Interestingly, the person who answered my question was the Speaker of the Parliament, Chaudhry Amir Hussain. He was a politician who loved Turkey and the Turks very much.

He was also outspoken...

After the official dinner he hosted in the evening, he started by saying, "Terrorism will not end until the drug trade ends." He meant that there is a symbiotic relationship between terrorism and drugs. Then he said; the CIA uses this relationship for America to be more influential in this entire geography.

I tried to mention the PKK or something similar.

His answer was short and clear: It is the CIA's organization... It keeps it in its hands both to control Turkey and to finance other organizations it uses for its own interests with the money coming from drugs. Hundreds of organizations in the Muslim geography from Pakistan to Morocco are fed not by the taxes paid by American citizens, but by drug money.

Then he told, one by one, the dirty deeds the CIA has committed in the region.

What he said was not something to be easily swallowed!

In short, the fact that the CIA controls the global drug trade stands before us as cold as ice. Thus, it finances terrorist organizations and funds whoever calls the shots in the world with drug money.

The Latin America example is there...

Even while withdrawing from Afghanistan, America made a deal with the Taliban so that the drug trade would not be disrupted, and then it shifted into reverse.

What Putin's Special Envoy Zamir Kabulov said in 2020 is extremely remarkable:

“Agents of American intelligence are involved in the drug traffic. Their planes fly from Kandahar and Bagram to Germany, Romania, and everywhere imaginable without being checked. This is such a business that every Afghan in Kabul will tell you about it; even lazy people are ready to talk about this subject. This secret is a secret that has bored everyone and is known by everyone. Everyone has accepted it as something that exists.”

All of this is not hidden or secret. Of course, for those who want to see and understand...

If the PKK shuts its doors, the answer to the question of who will take over the drug production and trade it holds is already obvious.

The whole world knows that the CIA runs wild in northern Iraq.

Even if the PKK's leadership cadre and militant crowd pack their bags and transfer to the garrison Kurdish statelet in Syria, the CIA will easily find other subcontractors for itself.

Moreover, it is not difficult at all for the PKK to manage its drug traffic from Qamishli or Al-Hasakah instead of Qandil.

Of course, again under the supervision and control of the CIA...

But what about the barons inside, those who do business with the PKK?

Will the players change, or will the old team continue?

Let us say this is related to the possible developments in politics and put a period to our article.