Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya introduced on Sunday that 72 drug traffickers had been apprehended in drug operations carried out in seven provinces throughout Türkiye.
Yerlikaya, in an announcement on his official social media account, famous that operations had been carried out in Ağrı, Muğla, Diyarbakır, Tekirdağ, Sakarya, Aydın and Bingöl provinces.
Congratulating the gendarmerie and the police personnel who carried out the operations, Yerlikaya stated: “We will not turn a blind eye to drug traffickers. We are determined to apprehend them and deliver to justice. We will not allow them to poison our future, our youth and our society.”
According to the data supplied by the minister, in an operation carried out by Ağrı Provincial Security Directorate, 25 kilograms (55 kilos) of liquid methamphetamine was seized whereas one suspect was detained.
In an operation carried out by the Muğla Provincial Security Directorate, 2 kilograms of liquid methamphetamine had been seized, and one individual was detained.
In the “Martyr Jandarma Second Lieutenant Murat Ataş Narcoterrorism Operation” carried out by Diyarbakır Provincial Gendarmerie Command in Lice rural areas, 80 kilograms of powdered hashish, 1.5 kilograms of dice hashish, 834,000 hemp crops and a couple of,850,000 skunk crops had been seized, whereas seven people had been apprehended, the minister knowledgeable.
Furthermore, in an operation carried out in northwestern Tekirdağ province, some 15,680 narcotics tablets had been seized, and one individual was detained.
In separate operations organized by Sakarya Provincial Gendarmerie Command and Provincial Security Directorate, 9.5 kilograms of hashish and varied narcotics weighing 500 grams had been seized, and 14 people had been apprehended.
Meanwhile, some 2.2 kilograms of hashish and 1.6 kilograms of methamphetamine had been seized, and 48 people had been detained in an operation carried out by the Aydın Provincial Gendarmerie Command.
In an operation organized by Bingöl Provincial Gendarmerie Command, 13 kilograms of hashish had been seized, Yerlikaya stated.
Source: www.dailysabah.com