300 cannabis roots and 3.2 kg of hashish seized in Diyarbakır operations; 16 suspects
Diyarbakır gendarmerie operations across the city centre and districts produced 18 incidents, with legal proceedings opened against 16 suspects. The teams seized 300 cannabis and skunk roots and 3 kilograms 239 grams of esrar, the Turkish word for cannabis.
Diyarbakır gendarmerie teams ran operations against people accused of selling,
transporting and using drugs in the city centre and its districts, and 18
incidents occurred.[1][2]Legal proceedings were opened against 16 suspects
linked to those incidents.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
The gendarmerie said it seized 300 kenevir/skunk roots and 3 kilograms239 grams
of esrar.[1][2][3][4][5][6]The operations were coordinated by the provincial gendarmerie’s
anti-narcotics branch and covered the city centre and the districts.[7][3][4][5][6]
The DHA account said the 16 suspects were detained and that the operations took
place over the previous week.[8]The reports name no suspect, do not say
whether any of the 16 was remanded or charged, and give no date other than the
day of publication, 9 November 2026.[8]
The operation was announced by the Diyarbakır governor’s office.[3]The İHA account reported the 16 suspects were detained, the same figure recorded here as arrested.[9][4]
The figures came from three separate press statements published by the Diyarbakır governor’s office on 9 November 2026.[10]
The teams moved simultaneously in the city centre and the districts.[11]The gendarmerie recorded the seized material for destruction.[11]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
16
Plants destroyed
300
Cannabis
3.239 kg
Agency
Diyarbakır İl Jandarma Komutanlığı
Agency type
Gendarmerie, Anti-narcotics agency
Cannabis
Hashish (3.239 kg); Living plants (300 plants)
Activity
Sale, Trafficking, Possession
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Diyarbakır province
Date
Publication date
Sources
İlke Haber Ajansıilkha.comTRDiyarbakır'da uyuşturucu operasyonlarında yüzlerce kök kenevir ele geçirildi
SON TVson.tvTRJANDARMADAN ÜÇLÜ OPERASYON! Diyarbakır'da çeşitli suç ile suçlulara ağır darbe!
Amed TVamedtv.comTRDiyarbakır genelinde düzenlenen uyuşturucu operasyonlarında 16 kişi yakalandı
Open questions the AI reported
The reports give only the publication date of 9 November 2026 and no separate date for the operations; DHA says they took place over the previous week.
The İlke account says only that legal action was taken against 16 suspects, while DHA and Habertürk say the 16 were detained.
The reports do not say whether any of the 16 suspects was charged, remanded or released.
No figure for the number of operation sites or the area cleared was published, and no value estimate was given.
The 18 incidents are given as a count only; no location or substance breakdown is published.
The Hürriyet and Habertürk texts are agency copies of the same statements, so they are not independent reporting.
The quantity is described as esrar, the Turkish word for cannabis, without saying whether it is resin or dried flower; it is recorded as hashish.
The Son Dakika text is attributed to the Anadolu Agency and reproduces the governor's office statement, so it is not independent reporting.
The Son Dakika report says legal action was taken against the 16 and does not say how many were detained, while İHA's headline says 16 were detained.
The Son TV page gives only the publication date of 9 November 2026 and no separate date for the operations themselves.
The Son TV totals combine the narcotics sweep with a wanted-persons operation (105 arrested on warrants) and a smuggling operation (31 suspects and 17 incidents); those are about other crimes and are excluded from this report's cannabis figures.
Aksiyon gives no separate date for the operations; 9 November 2026 is its publication date and the day of the announcement.
Aksiyon and Amed TV reproduce the same gendarmerie announcement as the accounts already cited, so they are not independent reporting of the operations.
Aksiyon says procedures for the detained suspects continue and the evidence was prepared for referral to the judicial authorities, without saying whether any of the 16 was charged or remanded.
Şanlıurfa narcotics police stopped a passenger bus and two cars on suspicion and seized 17 kilograms 200 grams of skunk, a potent form of cannabis. The three suspects detained over the case were remanded in custody after being brought before a court, and the investigation continues.
Customs officers at the Esendere border gate in Hakkari stopped a Turkish traveller arriving from Iran and found 49.56 grams of suspected cannabis hidden in his shoe soles. The Yüksekova Chief Public Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation into the seizure.
Gendarmerie teams in Odunpazarı, Eskişehir, searched a home following an investigation into illicit drug production and seized 310 grams of esrar and six cannabis plants. One suspect was detained and faces investigation for drug possession and unlawful cannabis cultivation.
Nevşehir anti-narcotics police placed 14 people under judicial proceedings after a week of operations, including 12 reported drug users and two accused of violating Law No. 2313. Officers seized a cannabis-growing setup, 11 cannabis seeds and 1.62 grams of kubar esrar alongside methamphetamine, synthetic cannabinoids and pills that are not counted as cannabis.
