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Zafer Ramadan, wanted for international drug trafficking, has been apprehended in an operation conducted in Mersin. Six other international suspects of drug related crimes have been detained in various provinces of Turkey within a month.

Minister of Interior Yerlikaya announced that in the operations, 1 ton 156 kilograms of drugs and 14 million 200 thousand drug pills were seized.

Following the clash that occurred during the operation in Kağıthane, İstanbul, resulting in the killing of one police officer and an 18-year-old at the scene, 37 of those detained in the subsequent operation have been arrested.