24-year-old remanded as 700 g cannabis found in car and home in Tokat
Gendarmerie stopped 24-year-old O.B. near Taşlıçiftlik on the Turhal-Tokat road on 31 October 2026, finding 380 grams of cannabis in his car and 320 grams at his Turhal home. He was detained on the prosecutor's orders and remanded in custody, bringing the total seized to 700 grams.
Gendarmerie teams stopped the vehicle driven by 24-year-old O.B. at about 15:00
on 31 October near Taşlıçiftlik village on the Turhal-Tokat road.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]Officers
detained one suspect in connection with the vehicle and home searches.[1][2][8]
A judicial search of the vehicle found 380 grams of vacuum-packed kubar esrar,
herbal cannabis, together with one banknote-counting machine.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]A search of
the driver’s home in central Turhal found another 320 grams of vacuum-packed
kubar esrar.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]Officers also recovered one vacuum machine, 5 kilograms of
odour remover, a digital scale and a knuckle duster from the home.[1][2][4]The
vehicle and home searches together yielded a total of 700 grams of kubar esrar.[2][4][6][8]
O.B. was taken into custody on the instructions of the public prosecutor and was
then remanded in custody by the court.[1][2][3][4][5][6][8]No other suspect was named in
connection with the seizure.[2]
The stop was carried out by teams from the Merkez District Gendarmerie Command and the Turhal District Gendarmerie Command.[2][6]
The court remanded O.B. in custody for drug trafficking and sent him to prison.[7]
Photos and video
Photo published with the İHA report on the 700 grams of cannabis seized in the Tokat vehicle and home searches. Photo: İHA.Photo details
The suspect is identified only by the initials O.B. with age 24; no full name was published.
No specific charge or trial outcome beyond remand in custody was reported.
No valuation of the seized cannabis was published.
Both opened pages carry the same İHA agency text, so no independent second account was available.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in İhlas Haber Ajansı: The stop was carried out by teams from the Merkez District Gendarmerie Command and the Turhal District Gendarmerie Command.
This page carries the same İHA agency text as the report's existing sources, so it provides corroboration but no independent second account.
The page displays an evidence-collage photo, but it was not added as media because it appears to repeat the same agency handout already linked from the İHA report and its distinctness could not be established from captions alone.
The KaradenizGazete page credits İHA and repeats the same agency text already cited, so it provides corroboration but no independent second account.
The page image is not added as media because its caption does not establish that it shows this seizure distinctly from the agency handout already linked in the report.
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
