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Turkish police detain 227 suspects over drug trafficking

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STORY: Turkish police detain 227 suspects over drug trafficking
SHOOTING TIME: Recent footage
DATELINE: Sept. 4, 2024
LENGTH: 0:00:59
LOCATION: Ankara
CATEGORY: SOCIETY/LAW

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1. various of the operations of cracking down drug smuggling and seizing narcotics (courtesy of Turkish Interior Ministry)

STORYLINE:

Turkish police detained 227 suspects for drug trafficking and seized more than 470 kg of narcotics, the country's Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Wednesday.

The police seized 479 kg of narcotics and 160,967 pills in simultaneous operations in 42 provinces, Yerlikaya said on social media platform X, without specifying the time of the operations.

According to Yerlikaya, seven police teams, 1,418 personnel, 12 aerial vehicles and 37 narcotic detector dogs participated in the operations, dubbed "Narkocelik-37."

The Turkish minister shared a video of the seized narcotics and footage of operations in which police teams were apprehending the suspects.

Türkiye has ramped up its crackdown on drug smuggling since 2023.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Ankara.
(XHTV)

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