5 detained, 3 jailed in Şırnak week of gendarmerie operations; 296 cannabis plants seized
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.
Gendarmerie teams in Şırnak detained five suspects in narcotics and smuggling
operations carried out across the city centre and its districts between 2 and 8
November 2026.[1][2]
The searches found 228 kenevir roots, the Turkish word for cannabis plants, and
68 skunk plants.[3][2]Officers also seized2 kilograms100 grams of kubar esrar
and 120 grams of pregabalin, a nerve-pain medicine that Turkey treats as a
controlled substance.[3]Şırnak Haber reports the gendarmerie recorded four
narcotics incidents in the week and that officers also took 41 Xanax and 22
Cedrina psychiatric pills.[4]
Three of the five suspects were remanded in custody by the court after being
referred to the judicial authorities, and proceedings were opened against the
other two.[1][2]
The operation was announced by the Şırnak governor’s office and carried out by
the provincial gendarmerie’s anti-smuggling and organised crime branch,
according to the Son Dakika account attributed to the Anadolu Agency.[3]DHA
and Şırnak Haber name the anti-narcotics branch of the provincial gendarmerie
command as the unit that ran the operations.[1]Kelkit Gazetesi, carrying the
DHA text, reported that the operations targeted addresses identified in advance
in the city centre and the districts.[5]
Gendarmerie anti-narcotics teams in Şırnak handled four narcotics incidents in the same week and began proceedings against five suspects under the coordination of public prosecutor’s offices, of whom three were remanded.[4]
Photos and video
Photograph published with the report on the Şırnak gendarmerie operations and captioned with the headline figure of 228 cannabis roots and three suspects jailed. Photo: AA / Son DakikaPhoto details
The reports give only the multi-day period 2-8 November 2026, not a single day or the sites; 8 November, the last day of the period, is used as the incident date.
Şırnak Haber says proceedings were started against the five suspects under the coordination of the public prosecutor's offices, while the Anadolu Agency text carried by Son Dakika reports an anti-smuggling and organised crime branch as the operating unit; DHA and Şırnak Haber name the anti-narcotics branch.
The two accounts give different psychiatric pill counts: 63 psychiatric pills in total (Son Dakika/DHA) against 41 Xanax and 22 Cedrina in Şırnak Haber; none are cannabis and they are excluded from the figures.
The quantity is described as kubar esrar, hashish, without a laboratory analysis; 2.1 kg is recorded as cannabis.
No suspect names, charges, individual cannabis quantities or trial date were reported, and no value estimate was published.
Şırnak Haber reports a wider police and gendarmerie roundup in the same period with 117 wanted people caught and 18 jailed, and police narcotics work with 18.01 g of esrar; that is a separate result and is left out of these figures.
The Son Dakika and DHA texts reproduce the same governor's office statement and DHA and Kelkit texts are agency copies, so they are not independent reporting; the opened Son Dakika page carries no caption naming what its photo shows.
The reports do not say whether the 228 kenevir roots and 68 skunk plants were rooted or cut, or precisely where they were found.
The submitted AMP page is a second URL for the same Anadolu Agency text already cited in this report, so it is not independent reporting of the governor's office statement.
Şırnak Haber attributes the gendarmerie work to the anti-narcotics branch and says proceedings were coordinated by the public prosecutor's offices, while the Anadolu Agency text names the anti-smuggling and organised crime branch.
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.
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.
