Karaman week of operations: 49 wanted caught, 11 jailed, cannabis and antiquities seized
Karaman gendarmerie carried out province-wide checks and operations between 6 and 12 November 2026 and seized 5 g of esrar, 379 g of hemp and skunk plant material, 297 synthetic tablets, 101 coins, 72 historical objects and 20 litres of illicit alcohol. Forty-nine people wanted for various crimes were caught and 11 were remanded in custody.
Karaman gendarmerie carried out province-wide checks and operations between 6
and 12 November 2026.[1]
The gendarmerie’s searches seized5 grams of esrar, 379 grams of hemp and skunk
plant material, 297 synthetic tablets and a drug-use device.[1]In the
cultural-property smuggling probe, investigators seized 101 coins and 72
historical objects.[1]Officers also seized 20 litres of illicit ethanol
alcohol, alcohol-making kits and various excavation tools.[1]
JASAT and public-order teams checked 18,526 people and 8,425 vehicles during the
operations.[1]Forty-nine people wanted for various crimes were caught and
sent to judicial authorities.[1]Eleven of the suspects were remanded in
custody and sent to prison.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No date for the individual seizures beyond the 6–12 November 2026 operation period; 13 November 2026 is the publication date.
The 379 grams of hemp and skunk plant material cannot be split between cannabis and synthetic cannabinoids; only the 5 grams of esrar is clearly cannabis. Combined cannabis weight (5 g esrar + 379 g kenevir/skunk) recorded as kg_seized 0.384, with 297 synthetic tablets left out of the cannabis figures as they are a different substance class.
The 101 coins, 72 historical objects, 20 litres of alcohol, 18,526 people and 8,425 vehicles checked are outside cannabis scope and are not recorded as cannabis figures.
No value estimate or sentence length was published for the 11 remanded in custody.
The account rests on a single source (the Saray Medya page, which reproduces an IHA dispatch); the IHA original page could not be opened for independent confirmation. The page photo is a generic thumbnail with the story's own headline as its caption and credit, so it is not listed as media.
In a simultaneous two-address raid in Bartın, police found harvested hemp plants dried on a clothesline and turned into marijuana, seizing 2 kg 100 g of marijuana and one blank-firing pistol; two people were detained and a third suspect remains at large. The anti-trafficking investigation is continuing.
İzmir's narcotics operation seized 1,367.5 kg of skunk alongside ecstasy and pregabalin, with detentions rising from 11 in the first stage to 17. The alleged organisation leader, wanted for seven years, was caught hiding in Menderes.
Şanlıurfa gendarmes stopped a passenger bus on the Diyarbakır-Şanlıurfa highway and searched a suitcase belonging to a passenger, finding 1 kilogram 467 grams of esrar, the Turkish term for cannabis. One suspect was detained and held for referral to judicial authorities.
Bozüyük narcotics police searched a vehicle and one person and seized 5 kg 400 g of skunk and 2 kg 200 g of cocaine; the suspect was remanded by the court.
