Turkish security forces seized a great deal of heroin and hashish throughout the country on Monday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Tuesday.
Acting on a tip-off, police confiscated 24 kilograms of heroin and detained two suspected people in connection with the haul in the eastern province of Bitlis, according to the report.
In a separate operation in Odemis town of the Aegean province of Izmir, gendarmery forces impounded three kilograms of hashish and arrested one person, said the report.
It added that in the southern province of Mersin, police seized3.5 kilograms of heroin and took into custody three suspects.
Gendarmery forces confiscated 43 kilograms of hashish and arrested eight suspected people in Soma and Salihli towns of Manisa in the Aegean province.
Some 40 kilograms of hashish was also seized in the southern province of Adana, the northwestern province of Bursa and the southeastern province of Adiyaman.
Turkey is a key transit route for smuggling drugs from Asia and the Middle East to markets in western Europe.
Source:Xinhua
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