Award-winning journalist in #Istanbul / giornalista in #Turchia / gazeteci. Previously, three years in the West Bank via London
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Ylenia Gostoli
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FMA joins other journalism and #pressfreedom organizations in calling for the release of award-winning Turkish journalist @alicanuludag.bsky.social and an end to judicial harassment of journalists reporting on matters of public interest. #GazetecilikSuçDeğildir turkiye.ipi.media/turkey-media...
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"Turkey ramps up surveillance of its citizens – with a hand from Brussels" by @yleniagostoli.bsky.social . [1/5]
7/ Meanwhile, hundreds of young people who dared to take to the streets last March still await trial, many under travel bans. With thanks to @saskiabricmont.bsky.social @notzachcampbell.bsky.social @mcaster.bsky.social
6/ Other Turkish companies backed by the EU's Horizon Europe programme, such as Aselsan and Havelsan, also provide surveillance and facial-recognition tools to the police. “We're seeing this lack of coherence everywhere when it comes to the Commission,” says @itxasdo.bsky.social of EDRi
5/ Earlier this year, I reported on how surveillance photographs were used to prosecute hundreds of peaceful protesters - many detained simply for showing up at rallies against the jailing of Istanbul’s mayor #ekremimamoğlu
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4/ Tenders show the company has recently supplied facial-recognition servers to Turkish law enforcement, feeding into a major expansion of the country’s surveillance system.
3/ At the centre is Netaş, a Turkish telecom firm controlled by China’s ZTE. Despite ZTE being labelled a “high-risk” vendor by the EU, Netaş received hundreds of thousands in EU research funds and is listed as a Commission “key innovator.”
