Antalya: 29 operations in a week, 75 held, 24 jailed, 8 kg cannabis seized
Antalya police carried out 29 anti-drug operations across the province in one week, catching 75 suspects and jailing 24 of those brought before the courts, with 20 released under judicial control. The operations seized 7.98 kilograms of esrar, the Turkish name for cannabis, and 75 cannabis plants, alongside a large synthetic cannabinoid haul and other drugs excluded from the cannabis figures.
🇹🇷 Antalya province · Türkiye
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Arrested
75
Charged
24
Released
20
Plants destroyed
75
Agency
Antalya Emniyet Müdürlüğü Narkotik Suçlarla Mücadele Şube Müdürlüğü
Antalya police carried out 29 separate anti-drug operations across the province
in the past week.[1][2][3]Officers caught 75 suspects in the operations.[1][2][3]Of
the suspects brought before the courts, 24 were jailed in pre-trial custody and
20 were released under judicial control, a set of conditions short of detention.[1][2][3]The operations were coordinated by the provincial police narcotics branch
against people and organisations trading drugs.[4]
Officers seized7 kilograms981 grams of esrar, the Turkish name for cannabis.[1][2][3]The same operations found 75 kenevir plants, the Turkish word for cannabis
plants.[1][2]Officers also seized 228 packets holding 897,852-use doses of
synthetic cannabinoid (A4).[1][2][3]The same searches found 345 grams of cocaine,
246 grams of methamphetamine, 98 synthetic pills, 4 grams of heroin and one
ecstasy tablet.[1]
The figures were published in a statement by the Antalya governor’s office.[4]The İhlas Haber Ajansı account of the same statement reports the same week of 29
operations with the same 7 kilograms981 grams of esrar.[5]
The 75 cannabis plants found in the searches were recorded as kök kenevir, cannabis roots.[3]
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Source: Mersin HaberLead image published with the İHA report on the 29 Antalya narcotics operations, captioned with the 8 kilo esrar and 897,852-use synthetic cannabinoid figures. No individual credit given.Photo details
The sources give no calendar date for the operations, described only as the past week; 9 November 2026, the publication date of the governor's statement accounts, is used as the incident date.
No breakdown is given of which seizures or suspects relate to cannabis rather than the synthetic cannabinoid, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin or pills found in the same operations.
The 75 suspects are a total for all drugs in the roundup, and no charges are named for the 24 jailed suspects.
The 24 jailed suspects are counted as charged because they were placed in pre-trial detention; no court outcome or trial date was reported.
The 20 released under judicial control are recorded as released, though they remain under supervision rather than being freed without conditions.
The form of the 75 plants (rooted or cut) is not stated, so they are recorded as plants destroyed or seized without a split.
No street value for the cannabis was published, and the esrar weight and plant count are not broken down by district or operation.
The synthetic cannabinoid figure is counted in use doses rather than weight, so it cannot be recorded as a cannabis quantity and is excluded.
The İHA text on the MSN page reproduces the same police statement already cited in the report, so it corroborates the account but is not independent of it.
No calendar date for the operations is given; 9 November 2026, the date of publication, stands in for the incident date.
The Adana Haber page is an İHA agency text and reproduces the same Antalya police statement, so it corroborates but is not independent of the report's other accounts.
No calendar date is given for the operations beyond 'the past week'; 9 November 2026 is the publication date.
The İHA text does not name the police or governor's statement it draws on.
Bozüyük narcotics police seized cannabis in four pieces of an unspecified amount during anti-drug work in Bilecik. One suspect was caught for buying, accepting or possessing a narcotic substance for personal use.
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.
Şırnak gendarmerie teams detained five suspects in a week of narcotics and smuggling operations across the province from 2 to 8 November 2026, and a court remanded three of them. Searches found 228 kenevir roots and 68 skunk plants, along with 2.1 kg of kubar esrar, a form of cannabis hashish.
Arrested 5Charged 3Plants destroyed 296Cannabis 2.1 kg
Police in Mersin raided addresses across the province on 7 and 8 November 2026 and detained seven suspected street dealers known as torbacı. A court jailed all seven on drug-trafficking charges under article 188 after searches found 28.2 grams of esrar alongside methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin.
