Drug smuggling worth $62 million stopped in Turkey

Turkish border guards prevented an attempt to import a large shipment of drugs from Iran into the country.

As reported by BAKU.WS with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Trade of Turkey, on November 1, as a result of an operation conducted at the "Gürbulak" checkpoint in the Turkish province of Ağrı, 721 kg of liquid methamphetamine was discovered.

According to the department, the total value of the seized narcotic substances amounts to 2 billion 612 million Turkish liras (approximately 62 million 185 thousand dollars).

It is also noted that since the beginning of 2025, a total of 30,100 kg of narcotic substances worth 96 billion dollars have been seized and destroyed.