Provincial police narcotics teams in Diyarbakır mounted an operation in the Ergani district aimed at people selling drugs.[1] The operation, directed by Narcotics Branch Director Nadire İnanç Karaca, searched the barn-used annex of a house owned by an agricultural engineer.[1] Officers detained the owner of the house, identified only by the initials M.K., during the raid.[1] After questioning and procedures at the police station, M.K. was taken to the courthouse and remanded in custody by the court.[1]

In the barn annex, officers seized 111 kilograms of kubar esrar, the pressed cannabis named in the report.[1] Concealed inside a chicken coop on the same property, officers also recovered a pistol, a hunting rifle, a blank-firing pistol, two magazines and 14 cartridges.[1]

The operation was described as based on information received from security sources and carried out by the provincial anti-narcotics branch.[1] Ergani, where the house, barn and coop were searched, is a district within Diyarbakır province.[1]