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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.”

2/ Turkey’s surveillance apparatus is being strengthened by companies that have received funding from the EU's flagship research programme, #Horizon - even as that tech is used to target peaceful protesters.

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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 newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu...

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#EU -funded companies, #China -linked tech, and #Turkey's rapidly expanding surveillance machinery - read how they're connected in my latest investigation @ftm.eu www.ftm.eu/articles/tur...

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Ylenia Gostoli

📰 Sunday extras: "Turkey ramps up surveillance of its citizens – with a hand from Brussels" by @yleniagostoli.bsky.social . [1/5]

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Ylenia Gostoli

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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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝗸𝗮𝗿𝗮, 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗷𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘀? EU research money, a Chinese firm and Turkish surveillance tech. A company part-owned by China’s ZTE still gets EU funding – while its servers help Turkey monitor protesters. 💶 How did EU money end up funding repression? Read more:

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