Field owner detained after 1,090 cannabis plants found in Adana cornfield
Police in Adana found 1,090 cannabis plants growing in the middle of a cornfield during a helicopter inspection and uprooted and destroyed them. The field's owner, whose name was not released, was detained and said he had not known about the plants.
Police in Adana detained the cornfield’s owner, whose name was not released.[1]Officers found 1,090 cannabis plants growing in the middle of his standing
corn crop.[2]The field is in Camuzcu Mahallesi, a mahalle, or neighbourhood,
of Seyhan district, one of Adana’s central districts.[2]The man told police
he had not known that the cannabis plants were there.[2]
Narkotim, the anti-narcotics teams of the Adana provincial police, inspected
farmland across the city by helicopter as part of a police campaign against
cannabis cultivation.[2]Officers who went into the field on foot lost their
way among corn about two metres tall, and the helicopter crew guided them to the
plants by radio.[2]The teams then uprooted the 1,090 plants, known in Turkish
as Hint keneviri, and destroyed them all.[1]
Karar reported that the cannabis appeared to have been sown into the corn to
hide it.[1]The field owner was detained, and no other suspect was named in
the case.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Plants destroyed
1,090
Agency type
Anti-narcotics agency, Police
Cannabis
Living plants (1,090 plants)
Activity
Cultivation
Setting
Field
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Kararkarar.comTR2 metrelik mısırların arasından kenevir çıktı | Adana haberleri
Haber7m.haber7.comTRMısır tarlasına ekilen kenevir helikopterle tespit edildi
Open questions the AI reported
The reports give no separate date for the helicopter inspection; 2 August 2017 is the publication date of both accounts.
No weight for the 1,090 plants and no area for the field were published.
No charge, court appearance or sentence was reported for the field owner.
The submitted Haber7 page carried only a placeholder image, and the Karar page's lead image is uncaptioned, so no photograph of the operation could be confirmed.
Haber7 credits the Anadolu Agency and Karar credits the Demirören Haber Ajansı; no police statement or court record was opened directly.
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Gendarmerie teams destroyed 48,579 cannabis plants at 35 sites across Yenişehir, Eğil and Sur. Türkiye’s Interior Ministry reported that officers seized 36 kilograms of cannabis and estimated that the destroyed crop could have yielded 1.2 tonnes.
Turkey's Interior Ministry said on 21 September 2026 that gendarmerie teams had destroyed 217,608 cannabis and skunk plants on 99 illegal plots in the Lice and Kulp districts of Diyarbakır. The ministry said the crop could have yielded about five tonnes of cannabis powder and that 15 kg of cannabis was also seized. It reported no arrests.
Gendarmerie teams seized 12,389,000 cannabis and skunk plants and 127 kg of cannabis in Lice, Diyarbakır, in an operation announced on 14 June 2025. All 22 suspects caught were remanded in custody by the courts.
Arrested 22Plants destroyed 12,389,000Cannabis 127 kg
