KOCAELI/BELEN - Turkish gendarmerie teams seized 20 kg of hashish in operations on Saturday.
Receiving a tip, gendarmerie teams confiscated 11 kg of hashish in a passenger bus in northwestern province of Kocaeli. Gendarmerie arrested a passenger of the bus.
In a separate operation in southern province of Hatay's Belen town, gendarmerie squads received a tip that a car was carrying illicit drugs. Teams tried to stop the car at a checkpoint but the driver managed to run away. Gendarmerie teams chased the car and found it left at the roadside. Teams found 9 kg of hashish in the car. Gendarmerie teams are searching for the driver.
(TÇ-GC)