Abstract:

The drug is a phenomenon that becomes a multi-layer, multi-dimensional problem that threatens the present and tomorrow of societies, especially the young generations who are imprisoned, but is a significant damage to the level of development of the countries that cause profound injuries to the mental and physical health of individuals and cause damage to the community. Drug use, ignoring the peace and security of the people, profoundly undermines the social and economic interests of society, disrupts the understanding of social justice and the fundamental principles of law. Activities in the fight against drug-related crimes have been one of the most important factors in the efforts of a country to capture and maintain economic and social stability, such as the provision of justice in the interindividual income distribution, the non-discrimination of social security, and the non-degradation of democratic and moral values. With the formation of drug-related crimes, the biggest damage is seen by the economies of the countries. In countries where the crimes are severely committed, security expenditure is increasing in the same way; the resources of the countries, on the one hand, are stolen by committing financial crimes, and on the other hand, these resources are used to eliminate the security gap resulting from them. In cases where the fight against these crimes remains insufficient, it appears that the inequality in the income distribution among individuals increases and the sense of justice is damaged, the unrest in society is triggered and social pollution occurs. Because social pollution within society is also the basis for political pollution, and this negative situation is the result of the disruption of the confidence in the state and the weakening of the authority of the state, but shows how important is the struggle with the organizations that seriously damage the economic and social tissue of the countries and therefore charge the society heavy costs. This study evaluates the economic reflections of the drug concept, the drug market, the drug policy within the state based on the data of the results obtained. These assessments are prepared on the basis of information and documents obtained from the Department of Trafficking and Organized Crimes of the Ministry of the Interior Security General Directorate and on the basis of data from the 2005-2012 years in which the security policies applied in the fight against drugs in the framework of the criminal economy in Turkey and the economic reflections of these policies are included.