Seven jailed in Mersin street-dealer raid that also found esrar
Mersin police detained seven suspected street drug dealers, and searches of their persons, vehicles and homes found esrar alongside 1 kg 781 g of synthetic drugs. A court jailed all seven in pre-trial detention.
🇹🇷 Mersin · Türkiye
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Arrested
7
Agencies
Mersin Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı, Mersin İl Emniyet Müdürlüğü
Mersin police teams acting in coordination with the Mersin Chief Public
Prosecutor’s Office carried out an operation against people identified as
trading drugs on the street.[1][2]Seven suspects were caught in the operation,
identified by the agency only by their initials.[1][3]
Searches of the suspects’ persons, their vehicles and their homes found esrar,
the Turkish word for cannabis, in a quantity the agency did not weigh.[1][3]The
same searches found 1 kg781 g of synthetic drugs and 129 synthetic pills, which
are outside this tracker’s cannabis figures.[1]Officers also seized
unspecified amounts of cocaine and heroin.[1]
After processing at the police station all seven were taken to the courthouse,
where the on-duty magistrate’s court jailed them in pre-trial detention.[1][2]
Searches of the suspects’ persons and homes also found various quantities of cocaine, esrar and synthetic pills, plus about 20,000 Turkish lira in cash police believed came from drug sales.[3]Officers searched both the suspects’ persons and their homes, according to the same report.[4]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
7
Agencies
Mersin Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı; Mersin İl Emniyet Müdürlüğü
Agency type
Police, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Sale, Trafficking
Setting
Home, Vehicle
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Mersin
Date
Publication date
Sources
Son Dakikasondakika.comTRMersin'de uyuşturucu operasyonunda 7 şüpheli tutuklandı, 1 kilo 781 gram bulundu - Son Dakika
The article gives no separate date for the operation; 9 November 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
No weight, packaging or value was published for the esrar, so no cannabis kilograms can be recorded.
The 1 kg 781 g refers to synthetic drugs, not cannabis, and is left out of the cannabis figures.
No district, neighbourhood or street is named for the operation.
The suspects are identified only by initials; no formal charge wording, trial date or further court outcome was reported.
Only one accessible account of this operation was found after searching in Turkish; agency and other outlet versions could not be opened.
The page's single photo carries only the headline as its caption with no credit, so it could not be confirmed as a photo of this seizure.
The text gives a weight ("1 kg") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there.
Akdeniz Gerçek and Aksiyon give an approximate cash figure of about 20,000 Turkish lira, while the fuller breakdown in other accounts gives 20,370 Turkish lira.
Bozüyük narcotics police seized cannabis in four pieces of an unspecified amount during anti-drug work in Bilecik. One suspect was caught for buying, accepting or possessing a narcotic substance for personal use.
Antalya police carried out 29 anti-drug operations across the province in one week, catching 75 suspects and jailing 24 of those brought before the courts, with 20 released under judicial control. The operations seized 7.98 kilograms of esrar, the Turkish name for cannabis, and 75 cannabis plants, alongside a large synthetic cannabinoid haul and other drugs excluded from the cannabis figures.
Şırnak gendarmerie teams detained five suspects in a week of narcotics and smuggling operations across the province from 2 to 8 November 2026, and a court remanded three of them. Searches found 228 kenevir roots and 68 skunk plants, along with 2.1 kg of kubar esrar, a form of cannabis hashish.
Arrested 5Charged 3Plants destroyed 296Cannabis 2.1 kg
Police in Mersin raided addresses across the province on 7 and 8 November 2026 and detained seven suspected street dealers known as torbacı. A court jailed all seven on drug-trafficking charges under article 188 after searches found 28.2 grams of esrar alongside methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin.
