{"id":272814,"date":"2024-08-04T07:50:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T23:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=272814"},"modified":"2024-08-04T07:55:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T23:55:06","slug":"turkiye-seized-more-than-1-5-tonnes-of-methamphetamine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=272814","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye Seized More Than 1.5 Tonnes Of Methamphetamine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ANKARA, Aug 4 (NNN-TRT) &#8211; Turkish police seized more than 1.5 tonnes of methamphetamine brought from Iran to T\u00fcrkiye, the country&#8217;s Interior Minister, Ali Yerlikaya, said yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police detained eight suspected drug smugglers and manufacturers, in operations named &#8220;Narcocelik-30,&#8221; which were carried out in the provinces of Istanbul and Yalova, Yerlikaya said, on the social media platform X, without specifying the time frame of the operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is one of the largest amounts of methamphetamine we have caught in recent operations,&#8221; the minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He shared a video of the raids and footage of the seized drugs, noting, &#8220;We are determined to cleanse our country from national and international poison traffickers. Our operations against poison traffickers all over our country will continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T\u00fcrkiye, often used by drug dealers as a transit hub, has intensified its crackdown on drug smuggling since last year.&#8211; NNN-TRT  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Aug 4 (NNN-TRT) &#8211; Turkish police seized more than 1.5 tonnes of methamphetamine brought from Iran to T\u00fcrkiye, the country&#8217;s Interior Minister, Ali Yerlikaya, said yesterday. The police detained eight suspected drug smugglers and manufacturers, in operations named &#8220;Narcocelik-30,&#8221; which were carried out in the provinces of Istanbul and Yalova, Yerlikaya said, on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":272816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,286,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272814"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272815,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272814\/revisions\/272815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/272816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}