The 2025 Turkey Drug Report, prepared by the Directorate General of Security’s Department for Combating Narcotics Crimes, has been published. The fight against drugs is an issue that requires an effective, simultaneous approach across the areas of combating supply, prevention/education, and treatment/rehabilitation. For the efforts undertaken in this context to be successful, it is essential […]
Health Minister Prof. Dr. Kemal Memişoğlu participated in the “Panel on a Resolute State and a Safe Turkey in the Fight Against Drugs,” organized by the Presidency’s Communications Directorate, on Thursday, January 29, 2026. In his opening remarks at the panel, Health Minister Memişoğlu stated that addiction is a serious disease that threatens human health […]
Drug trafficking in our country has become a form of crime that transcends national borders and operates at the regional and international levels. The rise in the number of drug addicts worldwide, the high profit margins in drug trafficking, the growing efforts by terrorist organizations to secure a share of these profits, and technological […]
What Is the Sleep Project? As is the case worldwide, drug use poses a major threat to our society—especially to our youth—here in our country as well. In the effective fight against drugs, raising public awareness on this issue is just as essential as law enforcement’s efforts to combat crime. The UYUMA app, developed by […]
The Turkish Cypriot Yeşilay Association, which combats addictions to cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, gambling, and technology—all of which are harmful to human health—is helping people overcome their addictions through its Yeşilay Counseling Center (YEDAM) project, launched under the slogans “We’re Here to Listen to You” and “You Can Say ‘No!’ You Can Say No!”—is helping individuals […]
Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk, Minister of Family, Labor, and Social Services, announced that they will implement the Addiction Treatment Service Model (BAHAR)—which takes a holistic approach to rehabilitation and reintegration as part of the fight against drug addiction—in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. The third meeting of the “Stay Active, Stay Safe” project, organized by […]
The Turkish Green Crescent Society has reached millions of students and parents through its educational programs conducted as part of its fight against addictions. The Turkey AddictionPrevention Education Program, launched to combat addictionssuch as tobacco, alcohol, drugs, and technology, has yielded successful results. As part of the program, various educational activities were carried out in […]
A circular signed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and published in the Official Gazette calls for the resolute continuation of efforts to combat substance addictions—such as drugs, alcohol, and tobacco—as well as behavioral addictions—such as gambling and technology addiction—and and to ensure coordination among ministries and public institutions and organizations, the High Council for the […]
You can download the report of the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission, established to investigate drug addiction and new forms of addiction in order to identify the causes of addiction and determine the necessary measures, from the link below. PARLIAMENTARY INVESTIGATIVE COMMISSION REPORT
METHODS AND TOOLS FOR COMBATING SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN THE UNITED STATES Prepared by: Sevgi SUÇİN Director of the Department for the Prevention and Control of Non-Alcoholic Substance Abuse The United States, which faces a serious problem of “addictive substance use and addiction” at the societal level—particularly prevalent among the young population— to address this situation […]
