Turkmen citizen arrested in Kemer with 3.4 kg of skunk on his bicycle
Turkish gendarmerie stopped a Turkmen citizen cycling through Göynük, in the Kemer district of Antalya, on 3 October 2019 and found 31 packets of skunk and two packets of Afghan hashish in a wet-wipes pack in his bicycle basket. He was detained and arrested at the courthouse the next day.
Gendarmerie officers stopped a Turkmen citizen on a bicycle in Göynük, in the
Kemer district of Antalya province, on 3 October 2019, and found drugs in a pack
of wet wipes in the bicycle basket.[1]
The package held 31 packets of 110 grams each of skunk, a cannabis product,
prepared for sale, together with two 3-gram packets of Afghan hashish and a
stimulant.[1]The man was detained and was arrested at the courthouse on 4
October after questioning.[1]
Azattyq reported the arrest on 7 October, citing the Turkish outlet
Haberler.com, and said it had not yet learned the details of the case or the
measures taken against the man from the Antalya police department.[2]The
reporting gives no court outcome, no charge and no prison sentence for the man.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The submitted Azattyq article does not name the drug, describing it only as narcotic substances; the cannabis identification, skunk and Afghan hashish, comes from the DHA story on Gün Haber.
The 3.416 kg total is calculated from the reported packets (31 × 110 g of skunk plus 2 × 3 g of Afghan hashish); no source gives a combined weight.
The Turkish report also mentions a stimulant in the package without giving its amount, so that substance is left out of the figures.
The original Haberler.com story quoted by Azattyq could not be opened; the DHA story is used for the detail.
No charge and no court outcome were reported; a reader comment asking about the sentence is unanswered in the article.
The man's name is spelled Geldiyev in the Turkish headline and Geldıyev in the body text, and Azattyq uses both Гелдиев and Гелдыев.
The 4 October arrest date is taken from the Turkish article's "dün" (yesterday) on a page dated 5 October 2019.
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