All 18 jailed after Akçakale raids find 27 g of esrar
Şanlıurfa gendarmes raided 17 addresses in Akçakale and detained 18 people suspected of trading drugs, seizing 27 grams of esrar alongside pills, synthetic narcotic and heroin. A court jailed 13 at first, then remanded the five released under judicial supervision after the prosecutor appealed, so all 18 went to prison.
🇹🇷 Akçakale, Şanlıurfa · Türkiye
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The Şanlıurfa provincial gendarmerie command’s narcotics-fighting branch and the
Akçakale district gendarmerie command carried out a coordinated operation
against suspects accused of trading drugs and stimulants.[1]Teams carried out
simultaneous raids on 17 addresses chosen in advance.[1]Searches of the
addresses found 149 pills, 8.32 grams of synthetic narcotic, 2.07 grams of
heroin and 27 grams of esrar.[1]A later local account reported that the 27
grams of esrar was made up of 8.95 grams of powdered cannabis and 18.05 grams of
cannabis, and that the 149 pills were Gerica and Captagon tablets.[2]
DHA reported that the narcotics were hidden inside a shoe, inside walls and
between cushions.[3]Eighteen suspects were detained and taken to the
gendarmerie command.[1]After processing at the gendarmerie, the suspects were
sent to the courthouse, where the court jailed 13 of them and released five
under judicial supervision, a form of conditional release short of pre-trial
detention.[1]
The Akçakale Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office appealed against the release
decisions, and the five suspects were brought back before the court, which also
ordered their detention.[2]
Photos and video
Composite of a Şanlıurfa Jandarma station at night and suspects escorted into a building after the Akçakale narcotics raids, as published with the report that all 18 were jailed.Photo details
The reports give no separate date for the raids; 13 November 2026 is the publication date of the accounts and the day of the court decisions, and is used as the incident date.
The Habertürk and DHA accounts give 27 grams of esrar without describing the form of the cannabis; Urfanatik splits it into 8.95 grams of powdered esrar and 18.05 grams of esrar.
Urfanatik describes the 8.32 grams as metamfetamin while the Habertürk/AA text calls it sentetik uyuşturucu; either way it is not cannabis and is excluded from the cannabis figures.
No charges, trial date or sentence are reported beyond the pre-trial detention decisions, and no suspect is named.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Urfanatik: All 18 suspects were sent to prison after the five who had been released were also ordered into pre-trial detention.
Mersin narcotics police carried out 19 operations across the city centre between 7 and 13 November 2026, seizing 115 grams of esrar-skunk and 3 cannabis plants alongside other drugs. Seventeen suspects were remanded in custody on charges of manufacturing and trading narcotics or stimulants.
Police in Fethiye, Muğla detained H.A.U. on suspicion of drug trafficking and seized 1 kilo 625 grams of cannabis and a precision scale from a home and vehicles. The suspect was referred to court and remanded in custody.
Istanbul police detained three people in Bahcelievler on 10 November 2026 after two riders arriving by motorcycle met a third man on a street and one threw a material to the ground. Searches found 25.68 grams of esrar in homes plus pills, heroin and cash; two suspects were released and one was remanded to prison.
Mersin police detained seven suspected street drug dealers, and searches of their persons, vehicles and homes found esrar alongside 1 kg 781 g of synthetic drugs. A court jailed all seven in pre-trial detention.
