Hevsel Gardens

Security forces yesterday discovered over 3,000 cannabis plants during a drug operation in Hevsel Gardens, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Türkiye's southeast.

The police identified the illicit cultivation within the gardens in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, with the operation resulting in the seizure of 3,267 plants used in narcotic production.

A medieval mountain gate known as Dağkapı will be placed on the 8,000-year-old Walls of Diyarbakır in Turkey with the same name after renovation and exhibited in a few days.

Dağkapı, which has a history of more than a thousand years has seen many years of the Diyarbakır Walls and has been meticulously repaired by specialists.

The 8,000-year-old Hevsel Gardens in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, which is on the UNESCO Heritage List, hosts around 200 bird species.

A massive plantation of cannabis was seized in a police operation on June 18 at Hevsel Gardens in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakır, a site on UNESCO’s World Heritage list. Click through for story in photos...

Turkey now has 15 sites listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, after Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens joined the list on July 5 and the ancient site of Ephesus joined on July 6.

UNESCO added the walls and the Hevsel Gardens in the southeastern city of Diyarbakır to its World Heritage List during a July 4 session in Bonn.