🇽🇳 Northern Cyprus
6 reports of cannabis enforcement.
Totals add up only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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- Seizure · 3
- Arrest · 1
- Prosecution · 1
- Sentence · 1
Latest reports
Northern Cyprus reports 218 participants in supervised drug programmes
An official account of an addiction symposium reported 218 participants in supervised-release programmes. The figure covered drug cases generally and described the work of the Prime Ministry’s drug commission.
Northern Cyprus police seize suspected cannabis in Famagusta
Police reported finding 1.2 kg of suspected cannabis and a precision scale in an operation in Famagusta. Two men were arrested and the investigation continued; the announcement did not report a conviction.
Police in northern Cyprus arrest ten people in two days of drug operations
In operations on 4 and 5 December 2025 in Kyrenia, Lefke, Metehan, Nicosia and at Ercan Airport, police reported seizing about 3.5 kg of drugs, most of it cannabis, including about 2 kg from a 22-year-old in Metehan and 600 g in Kyrenia, and arresting ten suspects. Two of them were held at the airport over four cannabis cigarettes after a detection dog alerted officers.
Nicosia court hears of 42 people benefiting from supervised release
At Nicosia’s judicial-year closing session, supervised-release board member Mustafa Hidayet reported 42 beneficiaries between 18 September 2023 and 30 June 2025, with programmes for 36 people continuing. The figures concerned drug cases generally and were presented at the Nicosia court session.[@1]
Northern Cyprus reports counselling 98 people on supervised release
The Social Services Department reported regular interviews and psychosocial support for 98 people benefiting from the supervised-release law. The figure covered drug users together; the report gave no separate cannabis count.[@1] It documented the support work following the 2016 law’s treatment alternative to sentencing.[@1,2]
Northern Cyprus jails a man for three plants and a small cannabis import
Arda Çelik received eighteen months in prison after growing three cannabis plants from seeds brought from Amsterdam and importing 3 g from the south of the island. The Nicosia court noted that cultivation carried a fifteen-year statutory maximum and treated the combined offences as serious.
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