ALBAWABA - Five celebrities including Hande Erçel test positive in probe.
Turkey's growing investigation into celebrity drug use has revealed that actress Hande Erçel tested positive for opioid compounds. The forensic findings also implicate several other high-profile figures who have been detained in the most recent wave of an operation that has shaken the entertainment industry in Istanbul since the fall of last year, according to the American Press Association (APA), which cites Türkiye Today.
The Forensic Medicine Institute tested Hande Erçel's urine and found morphine, codeine, and a substance related to codeine called codeine glucuronide. Negative results were obtained from both her blood and hair samples.
She is now on the expanding list of public people whose biological samples have given at least partial findings as prosecutors go through what has become one of the most extensive drugs investigations in the history of Turkish media. The mixed result placed her among some of the individuals on this growing list.
Several additional suspects were found to have cocaine and cannabis.
Four other detainees were subjected to the same round of forensic testing, which brought back excellent results. A hair sample taken from the singer Mustafa Ceceli revealed the presence of cocaine and its metabolites, benzoylecgonine and methylecgonine, although the results of his blood test were negative.
Similar results were found in the hair sample of actor İbrahim Çelikkol, which included cocaine and associated metabolites. In the course of the hair examination, music producer Deha Bilimlier was found to have positive results for both codeine and cocaine chemicals. The cannabis metabolite THC-COOH was found in DJ Ilkay Sencan's blood, and so was THC in his hair. DJ Ilkay Sencan tested positive.
Due to the fact that it may detect substance usage over a period of up to ninety days per centimeter of growth, hair testing is considered a benchmark in the field of forensic toxicology. This is a substantially larger window than urine or blood testing. A positive forensic result may not necessarily entail a criminal prosecution in accordance with Turkish legislation.
