Drug control law

A total of 727 kilograms of drugs were seized during anti-narcotics operations across Turkey on April 4, according to a security source.

This is the result of a joint operation by the Serbian and Spanish police.

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has vowed to step up the fight against drugs being sold outside schools, saying that police officers should not hesitate to use force against those selling drugs to the country’s youth.

Members of Serbia's Interior Ministry (MUP) have seized 80 kilograms of marijuana and arrested a 69-year-old FYROM (Macedonian) citizen whose initial are I.I.

A statement said that a truck with Macedonian number plates was stopped by the police near the town of Vladicin Han, and that the drugs were found in 131 packages, hidden in the vehicle.

Georgia expects a tourist boom due to the legal use of marijuana, Interfax reported.

Norway becomes the first Scandinavian state to decriminalize drugs, writes Independent.

The majority of MPs in the Norwegian Parliament support the historic change, including conservatives, liberals and two left-wing parties.

They entrust the government with the task of changing politics towards drugs.

1,160 kilograms of narcotics and other psychoactive substances have been burned in the Nikola Tesla power plant in Belgrade's municipality of Obrenovac.

The drugs had been confiscated by the police over the past period.

Police Director Vladimir Rebic, who was present at the power plant, specified that the narcotics destroyed today consisted mostly of marijuana and heroin.

Officers of the Greek Police's cyber crimes squad have traced four members of an international racket believed to have sold illegal drugs, including heroin and ecstasy pills, online to customers in Greece, sources said Thursday.

Turkish police have mapped out high drug-trafficking neighborhoods in 17 provinces across the country, which are kept under air and land surveillance for 24 hours a day.

Anti-drug teams have been assigned accordingly to the riskiest neighborhoods and intervene in a drug-related incident after obtaining aerial surveillance images from the police center.

The fight against narcotics is a matter that concerns the entire nation, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has said, calling on civil society to support a government-led fight against drug trafficking.