354 cannabis plants seized in Kadirli cornfields; 4 detained
Gendarmerie teams found 354 cannabis plants growing in two corn-planted fields in Kümbet village, Kadirli, and destroyed them. Four people were detained in connection with the cultivation.
Gendarmerie teams detained four people in Kümbet village in Kadirli district in
connection with cultivated cannabis found in village farmland.[1]Kümbet is a
village in Kadirli district of Osmaniye province, where the field operation took
place.[1]
Officers found 354 planted cannabis plants, known in Turkish as Hint keneviri,
growing as a cultivated crop in the village fields.[1]The 354 plants were
spread across two different fields that were already planted with corn.[1]Officers seized all 354 plants during the search of the two corn-planted fields.[1]The authorities later destroyed the seized cannabis plants.[1]
The field search followed evaluation of a tip received by the gendarmerie teams.[1]The jandarma, the gendarmerie force responsible for rural policing in
Türkiye, conducted the operation in the village.[1]The account described the
seized plants as planted cannabis intended for use in producing narcotic
substances.[1]The two corn fields were identified as the places where the
drug-material cannabis had been planted and grown.[1]
Case data
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Turkey's interior ministry said on 28 October 2026 that gendarmerie teams in 32 provinces had destroyed 119,772 cannabis and skunk plants. Of 423 suspects caught, 298 were remanded and 125 were released under judicial control.
Gendarmerie teams destroyed 48,579 cannabis plants at 35 sites across Yenişehir, Eğil and Sur. Türkiye’s Interior Ministry reported that officers seized 36 kilograms of cannabis and estimated that the destroyed crop could have yielded 1.2 tonnes.
Turkey's Interior Ministry said on 21 September 2026 that gendarmerie teams had destroyed 217,608 cannabis and skunk plants on 99 illegal plots in the Lice and Kulp districts of Diyarbakır. The ministry said the crop could have yielded about five tonnes of cannabis powder and that 15 kg of cannabis was also seized. It reported no arrests.
Gendarmerie teams seized 12,389,000 cannabis and skunk plants and 127 kg of cannabis in Lice, Diyarbakır, in an operation announced on 14 June 2025. All 22 suspects caught were remanded in custody by the courts.
Arrested 22Plants destroyed 12,389,000Cannabis 127 kg