Kırklareli Jandarma Komutanlığı teams, the provincial gendarmerie command, mounted an operation at Manastırdere mevkisi in the Kaynarca belde of Pınarhisar district after a tip-off that E.Ö. had cannabis growing in a field.[1]

Officers found 525,000 cannabis plants, described as Hint keneviri (Indian hemp), growing on a 40-dönüm field, about 6.4 hectares.[1]

The gendarmerie detained E.Ö. over the field.[1] Gendarmerie teams set the seized plants on fire and destroyed them.[1]