7 detained as Sakarya raids seize 2.2 kg cannabis and 695 plants
Sakarya gendarmerie carried out 7 operations in Geyve, Karasu, Kocaali and Hendek, detaining 7 suspects. Officers seized 2 kg 225 g of kubar esrar and 695 cannabis plants, plus a precision scale.
🇹🇷 Geyve, Karasu, Kocaali and Hendek districts, Sakarya Province · Türkiye
Sakarya İl Jandarma Komutanlığı, the Sakarya provincial gendarmerie command,
carried out seven separate operations in the Geyve, Karasu, Kocaali and Hendek
districts targeting unlawful cannabis cultivation and drug use.[1]Gendarmerie
teams acted after intelligence work conducted across those districts during the
preceding week.[2]Seven suspects were detained in connection with the
operations.[1]A judicial investigation was opened against the seven suspects
in connection with the same operations.[2]
The gendarmerie put the seized harvested cannabis, described as kubar esrar, at
2 kilograms225 grams.[1]The 2 kilograms225 grams was harvested cannabis,
described as kubar esrar, and the 695 items were cannabis plants, described as
kök kenevir bitkisi.[2]Officers also seized 695 cannabis plants, described as
kök kenevir bitkisi.[1]Officers also seized one precision scale, described as
a hassas terazi, alongside the cannabis.[2]
The seven operations took place during the week before 10 August 2017.[2]The
four districts lie within Sakarya province, where the provincial gendarmerie
conducted the operation series.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The reports give only the publication date of 10 August 2017 and no separate dates for the individual operations, so the report uses 10 August 2017 as the incident date.
Milliyet places the seven operations in the week before that date.
Haber7 describes seven suspects as detained while Milliyet describes a judicial investigation opened against seven suspects, and the report records these as the same seven people.
No names, charges or court outcomes for the seven suspects were reported.
No per-district breakdown of the seizures was given.
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.
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.
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
