Turkey
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![DATE IMPORTED:February 10, 2001Bulgarian customs officers make a test on 321 packages of high-purity heroin which was found at the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing with Turkey, February 10, 2001. Bulgarian customs seized almost 190kg (420 lb) of heroin onboard a Turkish truck destined for Germany. Bulgaria, [which borders Romania, Turkey, Greece, Macedonia and Yugoslavia], lies on the so-called Balkan route for smuggling drugs from Asia to western Europe.](https://i1.wp.com/www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/turkey_drugs_001.jpg?w=234&crop=0%2C13px%2C100%2C134px&ssl=1)
Kemal Kirişci
TÜSİAD Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe
Director - The Turkey Project
There’s a very strong tendency in U.S. foreign policy to acknowledge and to congratulate for holding elections, even when those elections take place in a pretty unfair context.