Gendarmerie officers found 1.5 kg of cannabis hidden inside a pumpkin on a passenger bus in Ergani, Diyarbakır.[1] The Diyarbakır governor’s office said the bus was travelling from Diyarbakır to western provinces when it was searched.[2] Officers from the provincial gendarmerie’s anti-smuggling and organised crime branch and the Ergani Değirmendere station carried out the search.[1] A sniffer dog reacted to the pumpkin in the bus’s luggage hold.[1] Inside, officers found the cannabis in a cavity whose cut top had been glued back on to prepare it for transport.[1]

The person who handed the parcel to the bus as a consignment was detained.[1] The governor’s office said the cannabis was confiscated on the public prosecutor’s orders and that judicial proceedings had begun against the suspect.[2] It said anti-drug work would continue with ‘increasing determination and resolve’.[1]

Tigris Haber described the drug as 1 kilo 500 gram kubar esrar, a resinous cannabis product.[3] It named the sniffer dog as Haklı.[3]