The charges are serious. The PKK leaders themselves vehemently deny accusations of drug trafficking, and do not hesitate to use violent scare tactics (sit-ins, property damage, threats of bodily harm, etc.) to prevent the European media from broaching the subject. Let us therefore steer clear of unfounded, unsubstantiated, and uncorroborated statements, and proceed step by step. First, we will establish that there is indeed massive trafficking in narcotics from the "Golden Crescent" to Europe via Turkey, the Balkans, and the former Eastern Bloc. This trafficking involves numerous Turkish nationals, often natives of southeastern Anatolia, or “Turkish Kurdistan.” Furthermore, impartial sources (INTERPOL, the British NCIS, and the police of the EU States) report that most of these traffickers operate for the benefit of Turkish-Kurdish revolutionaries or separatists, and most of these "dealers/militants" have ties to the PKK. Finally, we will demonstrate that while it is simplistic to say that "the PKK engages in drug trafficking," there is still a undeniable, enduring, and mutually profitable complicity between the Party of Abdallah Ocalan and the Kurdish crime clans, which may be likened to the "families" of the Sicilian Mafia. The biological, political, and criminal ties between these clans and the PKK are so close that it is impossible to separate one from the other.