Three suspects as Malatya checks find 6,050 pills and 12 g esrar
Security forces checking Kanal Yolu in Malatya's Serintepe neighbourhood on 4 November 2026 found 6,050 narcotic pills in 121 boxes and 12 grams of esrar, the Turkish name for cannabis. Governor Seddar Yavuz announced the seizure, and a judicial investigation was opened against three suspects.
🇹🇷 Kanal Yolu, Serintepe Mahallesi, Battalgazi, Malatya · Türkiye
Three people were named as suspects after security forces searched along Kanal
Yolu in the Serintepe neighbourhood of Malatya on 4 November 2026.[1]A
judicial investigation was opened against the three suspects in connection with
the seizure.[1][2]
Officers seized 6,050 narcotic pills packed in 121 boxes together with 12 grams
of esrar, the Turkish name for cannabis.[1][3][2][4]Malatya governor Seddar Yavuz
announced the seizure, not a police directorate statement.[1]
Yavuz said the checks on 4 November 2026 found 6,050 narcotic pills in 121 boxes
and 12 grams of esrar, and that the investigation into the three suspects had
begun.[5]The governor said the fight against drugs would continue without
pause.[1]The second account says the security forces were carrying out field
checks as part of continuing controls on drug production and trade across
Malatya.[5]Kahta Haber Postası reported that the seized material was taken
into custody.[5]
Manşet Haber described the 6,050 pills as sentetik ecza, or synthetic pharmaceutical pills.[3]The operation was carried out by Battalgazi District Police, part of the Malatya Provincial Police Directorate.[3][2]Police searched the suspects’ addresses as part of the operation.[3]Police detained three suspects and took them to the station, where their processing was still continuing.[3][6]
Battalgazi District Police teams carried out physical surveillance of street dealers described as torbacı and then searched a vehicle stopped on suspicion.[4][7]
A separate Anadolu Agency account said the 6,050 synthetic pharmaceutical pills and 12 grams of esrar were found in searches at the suspects’ addresses.[8]
Three suspects were caught in the operation.[7]An investigation into the incident was opened.[7]
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Neither account says which unit carried out the checks or where exactly on the road the suspects were stopped.
The suspects are described only as three people; no names, ages, or the charges they face were published.
No weight or substance of the narcotic pills was reported, and they are excluded from the cannabis figures.
No court outcome was reported; the judicial investigation was described as just beginning.
No street value for the esrar was published.
Both outlets carry the governor's statement almost verbatim, so the three-suspect count and quantities are not independently corroborated.
The reports do not say whether the 12 grams were found on the suspects or nearby along the road.
Manşet Haber describes searches at the suspects’ addresses, while the existing accounts place the checks along Kanal Yolu; whether those addresses were on that road is unclear.
The new accounts describe the seizure as coming from a vehicle stopped after surveillance, while the existing accounts place the checks along Kanal Yolu; whether the vehicle was stopped on that road is unclear.
The DHA account on Hürriyet says the pills and esrar were found in a vehicle stopped on suspicion, while the Anadolu Agency account says they were found in searches at the suspects' addresses.
The İHA dispatch gives no separate date for the surveillance, vehicle stop or arrests; 5 November 2026 is its publication date.
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Gendarmerie teams in Odunpazarı, Eskişehir, searched a home following an investigation into illicit drug production and seized 310 grams of esrar and six cannabis plants. One suspect was detained and faces investigation for drug possession and unlawful cannabis cultivation.
Nevşehir anti-narcotics police placed 14 people under judicial proceedings after a week of operations, including 12 reported drug users and two accused of violating Law No. 2313. Officers seized a cannabis-growing setup, 11 cannabis seeds and 1.62 grams of kubar esrar alongside methamphetamine, synthetic cannabinoids and pills that are not counted as cannabis.
