One arrested after 114 cannabis plants found in Bursa butcher's basement
Police in Yıldırım, Bursa, found 114 cannabis plants, 1.99 kg of packaged cannabis and 924 g of cannabis left to dry in the basement of a butcher's shop converted into a grow room. A suspect identified only as A.T. was detained and a court ordered him held in pre-trial detention.
🇹🇷 Yıldırım, Bursa · Türkiye
- Arrested
- 1
- Plants destroyed
- 114
- Cannabis
- 2.914 kg
Police in Yıldırım, a district of Bursa, found a cannabis grow in the basement
of a butcher’s shop converted into a grow room with climate-control and lighting
equipment.[1][2][3][4][5] They detained a suspect identified only by the initials A.T.;
after questioning at the police station he was taken to court, where a judge
ordered him held in pre-trial detention, known in Turkey as tutuklama.[6][2][4] He
was sent to prison after the court order.[1][2][3]
Officers seized 114 cannabis plants in pots, 1 kg 885 g of esrar (cannabis) in
four transparent bags, another 105 g in two bags and 924 g of cannabis left to
dry, along with the climate-control and lighting equipment, liquid fertilisers
and chemicals.[6][2][3][4] İhlas Haber Ajansı put the esrar total at 1 kg 990 g.[1][4][5]
The operation followed about a month of physical surveillance, after which
police said the basement had been converted into a cannabis greenhouse and
cannabis grown there was prepared for sale at another address.[6] It was run
by Yıldırım district police teams working against drug manufacture and
trafficking.[1][2][3][4][5] Searches were carried out at several addresses under a
decision by judicial authorities.[1][2][3]
Sources
- Bursa Yıldırım'da kasap dükkanının bodrumunda 114 kök kenevir ele geçirildi. Haberler.com, 31 October 2026. In Turkish.
- Kasap Dükkânının Altından Uyuşturucu Serası Çıktı! 114 Kök Kenevir Ele Geçirildi. Afyon Türkeli Gazetesi, 31 October 2026. In Turkish.
- Kasap dükkanından seraya: bodrumda 114 kök Hint keneviri bulundu. Aksiyon, 31 October 2026. In Turkish.
- Bursa Yıldırım'da kasap bodrumundaki kenevir serasında 114 kök ele geçirildi. Son Dakika, 31 October 2026. In Turkish.
- Kasap dükkanı kenevir serası çıktı. Ege Alternatif Gazetesi, 31 October 2026. In Turkish.
- Bursa'da iş yerinin bodrumunda Hint keneviri yetiştirdiği iddia edilen şüpheli tutuklandı. Habertürk Yerel Haberler, 31 October 2026. In Turkish.
Open questions the AI reported
- The sources give no separate date for the operation, detention or court appearance; 31 October 2026 is the publication date of the earliest accounts.
- No charge, trial date, sentence or estimated value of the cannabis was published; tutuklama is pre-trial detention, not a conviction.
- The submitted article calls the premises an iş yeri (workplace), while the İhlas account identifies it as a kasap dükkanı (butcher's shop); this report follows the more specific account.
- İhlas reported a hashish total of 1.99 kg, the 1.885 kg and 105 g lots together; the 924 g of cannabis left to dry is counted separately, so the figures record 2.914 kg in all.
- The only image on the submitted page is a generic "Bursa Haberleri" graphic, not a photo of the operation, so no media entry is included.
- The four gallery photographs carry only the article headline as their caption and name no photographer or agency credit.
- The Aksiyon page carries two pictures captioned only with the headline and naming no photographer or agency; no separate media entry was added because the report already links the agency photo set from this raid.
- The pictures on this page carry only the headline as their caption and name no photographer or agency; the report already links the İHA photo set from another outlet, so no new media entry was added.
