Balıkesir İl Jandarma Komutanlığı, the provincial gendarmerie command, carried out narcotics operations across 12 districts of Balıkesir province targeting drug manufacturing and trade.[1] Officers linked the sweep to 62 narcotics incidents and caught 75 suspects.[1] Judicial proceedings were started against all 75 suspects, with no detention or judicial-control outcome reported.[1]

Officers seized 21 kilograms 919 grams of esrar, the term the source uses for cannabis.[1] They also seized 620 grams of skunk, six rooted skunk plants and 189 grams of cannabis seeds.[1] The same searches also found 70 grams of bonzai, 112 grams of methamphetamine, 5 grams of cocaine and 272 synthetic drug pills, which are not counted in the cannabis total.[1] Officers also seized three precision scales, 19 drug-use implements, two mobile phones and 57,000 Turkish lira described as suspected crime proceeds.[1]

The 12 districts were Altıeylül, Ayvalık, Bandırma, Burhaniye, Dursunbey, Edremit, Gönen, Havran, İvrindi, Karesi, Sındırgı and Susurluk.[1] Searches targeted suspects’ homes, outbuildings and vehicles identified through intelligence work.[1] The account presents the sweep as covering a two-week period and gives no breakdown of suspects or seizures by district or address.[1] The gendarmerie said intelligence work and operations against drug offences would continue.[1]