'Addiction treatment center in Konya involved in drug trade'

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İYİ (Good) Party Konya MP Fahrettin Yokuş relayed the claim of a health professional that drugs are being sold in the Konya Beyhekim Alchohol and Substance Addiction Treatment Center (AMATEM).

Yokuş spoke during the talks on the budget of the Ministry of Health in the Planning and Budget Commission of the parliament.

He said, "The health professional is going to give a petition to the prosecution but he tells his institution and they say that 'Physician in chief is going to change and that petition should better be given then...' 20 days pass but unfortunately selling of drugs continue. I have the documents here. Then you displace this health professional as a penalty."

İYİ Party Konya MP Fahrettin Yokuş also said that 'the age of drug use dropped to 11' during his previous speech at the same commission over the 2023 budget.

Meth operations in seventeen cities

İstanbul police seized more than 3.5 tonnes of methamphetamine on Wednesday (November 23) and detained 22 people.

Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu announced the operation as "the largest-ever seizure of the substance at one time in Türkiye."

Over the past two weeks, the police seized methamphetamine in 17 cities across Türkiye, including Konya, Ağrı, Kastamonu, Kars, Malatya, Kocaeli, Van, Tekirdağ, Balıkesir, Erzincan, Yalova, Sakarya, Bursa, Siirt, Aydın and Manisa, according to Anadolu Agency reports bianet compiled. (AS/PE)