In Turkey, new technologies reinforce repression

Turkiye uses technology to suppress protests; arrests nearly 2,000 people

Faced with such the risk of facial recognition with cameras, many demonstrators are now covering their heads and faces with hats, masks and scarves

Facial recognition and internet restrictions fuel Turkey’s crackdown on dissent

Turkish authorities are using advanced facial recognition technology to identify protesters and make arrests, even tracking them to their homes in pre-dawn raids. Internet restrictions, including bandwidth reduction and attempts to close hundreds of social media accounts, have been implemented to limit communication among protesters following Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu's arrest. Protesters are adapting by covering their faces during demonstra…

In Turkey, new technologies reinforce repression

With anti-government protests sweeping across Turkey, the authorities have used all technological means to try to curb them, from restricting internet access to using facial recognition to identify protesters, who have been forced to adapt.

Ankara. The government of the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has resorted to all the technological means at its disposal to stop the protests that shake the country, from restricting access to the network to facial recognition to identify the demonstrators, who are forced to adapt.

The Turkish authorities have made use of all available technological means to stem the contest that is shaking the country, from web access restrictions to facial recognition to identify protestors, forced to adapt. Small overview of an intrusive, muscular and authoritarian crackdown.

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