On 5 November, Bitlis provincial gendarmerie teams working against drug sellers stopped a taxi at the truck park at the Tahtali village location in Guroymak.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] A search of the stopped taxi found a can in its trunk containing 1 kilo 50 grams of esrar, the Turkish word the source uses for cannabis.[1][4][7][13][8][9][10][12] The source describes the seized drug as kubar esrar, a powdered cannabis preparation.[12] The seized 1 kilo 50 grams amounts to 1.05 kilograms of cannabis taken from the taxi luggage compartment in Guroymak, Bitlis.[1][6][8][12] Officers detained one suspect over the trunk-can find, and the judgeship before which the suspect was brought ordered remand in custody.[1][2][14][4][6][7][13][8][15][16][9][10][12]
The Bitlis Governorate said the work was carried out by Il Jandarma Komutanligi teams under the coordination of the Bitlis Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and targeted drug sellers.[1][14][4][7][8][9][10][11][12] The gendarmerie teams acted on intelligence information.[12] The governorate presented the 5 November taxi stop and trunk search as one result of that coordinated anti-seller work in the Guroymak district of Bitlis province.[1][8] The account identifies the control point as the truck park in the Tahtali village area and the searched vehicle as a taxi.[1][2][14][3][5][13][8][15][16]
