An Alanya court sentenced Bülent B. to 14 years in prison and fined him 150,000 Turkish lira for cannabis cultivation and drug trafficking.[1] The Second High Criminal Court ordered that he remain in custody.[1] The cultivation sentence was four years and a 50,000-lira fine, while the trafficking sentence was ten years and a 100,000-lira fine.[1] At the hearing, Bülent B. denied trafficking, said he had grown cannabis for his own use and requested acquittal and release.[2]

The case followed an Alanya home operation dating to 28 April 2025, after narcotics police received information alleging that he held drugs for trafficking and planned to move them.[2] After obtaining the prosecutor’s permission, police searched the residence and found 12.01 grams of cannabis in containers in his room and 10 cannabis plants in pots and yoghurt tubs on the roof.[2] A further kilogram of cannabis was found in a bag tied among the upper branches of an avocado tree beside the roof, bringing the reported cannabis weight to 1.01201 kilograms.[2] Police detained Bülent B., and a court subsequently ordered him held on a drug-trafficking allegation.[2]