The ''Lucky-S'' incident occurred on January 7, 1993, when

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vessels, carrying members of the Turkish Narcotic Police, intercepted the MV ''Lucky-S'', a Turkish ocean freighter in international waters in the

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. The ship was suspected of being involved in smuggling illegal drugs into Turkey. It was the second Turkish anti-drug-smuggling operation on the high seas in three weeks, following the Kısmetim-1 incident.

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and morphine base were captured on the ship, which was escorted to a Turkish port.

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Eleven people arrested as a result of the operation were convicted of involvement in the drug trade. Şeyhmus Daş, who was also found to have organized

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by the '' Kısmetim-1'' and was imprisoned, escaped from custody on November 8, 1994, as he was brought from

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to the 1st State Security Court in Istanbul for trial over his involvement in the Lucky-S incident. On March 16, 1995, he was sentenced in absentia to 24 years imprisonment in a maximum-security prison. It was alleged that the drugs on the ship belonged mostly to the Turkish

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Halil İbrahim Havar, son of the arms trafficker. He was tried and sentenced to 30 years imprisonment. He is serving his sentence in the

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Uşak Prison.

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Lucky-S and Kısmetim-1

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for Şanslı-S and Nasibim-1

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