18 January 2026 22:35<\/p>\n
T\u00fcrkiye has moved to active law enforcement measures following a major cocaine trafficking operation carried out by Spanish security forces on a vessel intercepted in international waters.<\/strong><\/p>\n Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced <\/a><\/strong>on social media platform X that T\u00fcrkiye joined the operation after Spain detained 13 crew members, Caliber.Az<\/a><\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n Following these detentions, coordinated operations were conducted simultaneously in \u0130stanbul, Mersin, Tekirda\u011f, Kocaeli, Sakarya, and Hatay, resulting in the arrest of seven suspects.<\/p>\n The vessel, stopped in the Atlantic Ocean on January 12, was found to be carrying around 10 tons of cocaine hidden among a cargo of salt. The crew detained by Spain included four Turkish citizens, one Serbian national, one Hungarian national, and seven Indian nationals.<\/p>\n By Jeyhun Aghazada<\/p>\n Caliber.Az<\/b><\/p>\n Read more about the key topics in this news story.<\/p>\n Views: 50<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"18 January 2026 22:35 T\u00fcrkiye has moved to active law enforcement measures following a major cocaine trafficking operation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[23355,7503,7502,2000,299,23356,23359,466,23358,23357,23354,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-704848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-analysis-of-azerbaijan","9":"tag-azerbaijan","10":"tag-baku","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-important-news-of-azerbaijan","14":"tag-international-experts","15":"tag-interviews","16":"tag-interviews-with-azerbaijani-analysts","17":"tag-news-from-baku","18":"tag-news-of-azerbaijan","19":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}