By Serkan Avci and Safak Yel
MERSIN/IZMIR, Turkey (AA) – Turkish security forces seized nearly 519 kilograms and 295 grams of different types of drugs on Thursday.
The drugs including over 500 kg of marijuana, 113 of which labeled as skunk, and 2,450 grams of heroin as well as 17 pills were seized during operations in the Mersin, Sivas, Trabzon, Erzurum, Kahramanmaras and Izmir provinces.
Twenty-three people were also arrested.
*Halife Yalçınkaya from Sivas, Ersoy Sevinç from Kahramanmaras, Duygu Avunduk from Trabzon and Yunus Okur from Erzurum contributed to the story
