Turkish police seized several valuable artefacts, including a 17th century Quran and several Ottoman-era weapons, during an anti-smuggling operation in Istanbul.
Polis searched the house of the suspect in Umraniye, Istanbul City, and 1,730 historical coins, fossils of sea creatures, wedges and knives, and money considered to belong to the Ottoman period were seized.
Sanger Ahmadi a national of Afghanistan, who is the leader of the drug and organized crime organization ’Lions-Cartel’ and is said to be involved in more than 30 crimes in Germany, and 4 members of the organization were caught in an operation in a hotel in Bahcelievler in Istanbul.