Afyonkarahisar police

Police chiefs of 10 provinces have been assigned to the headquarters and new police chiefs have been appointed in 33 provinces of the country in line with a presidential decree published in the Official Gazette on July 7.

One civil chief inspector and 26 police chiefs were appointed as internal affairs counselors to 27 overseas missions.

Some 65 police officers on duty were hospitalized on March 15 on suspicion of food poisoning following a meeting by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the inner Aegean province of Afyonkarahisar, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The president was in Afyonkarahisar for an opening ceremony and a retinue of police officers was responsible for security measures during his speech.