{"id":929,"date":"2017-05-26T15:14:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T14:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/?p=929"},"modified":"2017-06-02T15:46:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T14:46:57","slug":"commission-zakho-has-become-drug-gateway-to-turkey-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/commission-zakho-has-become-drug-gateway-to-turkey-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMISSION: ZAKHO HAS BECOME DRUG GATEWAY TO TURKEY, SYRIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"detail-div\" style=\"color: #000000;\">T<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrttv.com\/en\/Details.aspx?Jimare=14601\">he original article<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"detail-div\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"detail-div\" style=\"color: #000000;\">SULAIMANI \u2013 The Kurdistan Region\u2019s Independent Commission for Human Rights said the region\u2019s district of Zakho has become a gateway between Iran, Turkey and Syria for drug trafficking.<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\">Head of the commission, Zya Pitros, told reporters on Sunday (May 21) that Zakho has become a bridge for transferring drugs from Iran to Turkey and Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\">\u201cAccording to the information we have received, drugs are entering Zakho from Iran as it is a border area,\u201d the commission\u2019s head added. \u201cPart of it is exported to Turkey and Syria. What this means is that Zakho has become a bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\">Pitros warned all the Kurdish forces to deal with the issue because youth in the region may use the drugs if there is a prevalence of them in the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\">Kurdish officials warned that drug trafficking threatens to become an epidemic if anti-drug forces fail to curtail the rise of activities in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\">The head of the Kurdistan Regional Government&rsquo;s (KRG) Anti-Drug Directorate in Sulaimani, Jalal Amin Bag, said on January 3 that the trade and use of drugs had increased in 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\">According to security officials, many of the drugs were imported illegally to the Kurdistan Region from neighboring Iran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\">(NRT)<\/p>\n<!-- Facebook Page Plugin by Medust: http:\/\/medust.com -->\r\n\t\t<div class=\"fb-recommendations-bar\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/commission-zakho-has-become-drug-gateway-to-turkey-syria\/\" data-read-time=\"5\" data-side=\"\" data-action=\"like\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original article SULAIMANI \u2013 The Kurdistan Region\u2019s Independent Commission for Human Rights said the region\u2019s district of Zakho has become a gateway between Iran, Turkey and Syria for drug trafficking. Head of the commission, Zya Pitros, told reporters on<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/commission-zakho-has-become-drug-gateway-to-turkey-syria\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-interessants","category-economie-criminelle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}