Ylenia Gostoli
@yleniagostoli.bsky.social
Award-winning journalist in #Istanbul / giornalista in #Turchia / gazeteci. Previously, three years in the West Bank via London yleniagostoli.com
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...
Turkey: Media freedom and human rights groups urge authorities to release and drop charges against journalist Alican Uludağ – IPI Turkiye Website
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📰 Sunday extras: "Turkey ramps up surveillance of its citizens – with a hand from Brussels" by @yleniagostoli.bsky.social . [1/5]
Turkey ramps up surveillance of its citizens – with a hand from Brussels
A Turkish firm which has been backed by EU research funds is supplying facial recognition equipment to Ankara. The company’s controlling shareholder is Chinese tech giant ZTE, classified by Brussels a...
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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...
Turkey ramps up surveillance of its citizens – with a hand from Brussels
A Turkish firm which has been backed by EU research funds is supplying facial recognition equipment to Ankara. The company’s controlling shareholder is Chinese tech giant ZTE, classified by Brussels a...
ftm.eu
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:
Turkey ramps up surveillance of its citizens – with a hand from Brussels
A Turkish firm which has been backed by EU research funds is supplying facial recognition equipment to Ankara. The company’s controlling shareholder is Chinese tech giant ZTE, classified by Brussels a...
ftm.eu
Must read from colleagues @andresmourenza.bsky.social @sofiacherici.bsky.social @dogueroglu.com and Siraj investigating the journey of scrap metal from waste pickers in war-torn countries to powering Turkey's steel industry www.newarab.com/investigatio...
Scrap wars: How child labour and conflict feed Turkey steel boom
Tainted metal scrap sourced from conflict zones can ultimately become finished steel used by some of Europe’s top firms.
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Environmental journalist and documentarist #HakanTosun has died as a result of an attack carried out by two assailants in #Istanbul. He had been reporting on land grabbing and profiteering after the Hatay earthquake bianet.org/haber/hakan-...
Hakan Tosun kimdir?
Yoğun bakımda tedavisi süren ekolojist ve gazeteci Hakan Tosun’un beyin ölümü gerçekleşti.
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An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...
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Finally got around to listening to Lethal Dissent. Brave reporting & incredible storytelling from @faribanawa.bsky.social @berileski.bsky.social @farooqumar.bsky.social on how #Iranian dissidents are surveilled & silenced in exile. Final episode broke me. www.onspecpodcast.com/season-five-...
Season 5: Lethal Dissent — On Spec
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Another major recognition for our investigation into Turkey's EU-funded deportations of Syrian and Afghan refugees with @lighthousereports.com @andresmourenza.bsky.social @maybulman.bsky.social @sebnemarsu.bsky.social @nicolasbourcier.bsky.social and the rest of our stellar team
Chilling and important reporting by @yleniagostoli.bsky.social as this kind of tech-powered surveillance of protesters spreads around the world.
Ylenia Gostoli@yleniagostoli.bsky.social · last yr.#Turkey is accelerating its use of facial recognition to detain and prosecute protesters - often with little or no evidence. I’ve been investigating how #AI is contributing to the erosion of the rule of law & supercharging authoritarianism 🧵 newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu... @newlinesmag.bsky.social
"We see this as a way to transform the whole society. There has been a backsliding of rights in #Turkey in the last 10 years, this is a chance to tackle it," @ceylanakca.bsky.social on the ongoing negotiations #KurdishPeace lespresso.it/c/mondo/2025...
Turkey is expanding AI-powered surveillance, prosecuting protesters based on facial recognition and scant evidence, reports @yleniagostoli.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Turkey’s AI-Powered Protest Crackdown
Documents show that Ankara is expanding facial recognition policing while circumventing legal safeguards, charging demonstrators with little to no proof of wrongdoing
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📰Sunday extras: "Turkey’s AI-Powered Protest Crackdown" by @yleniagostoli.bsky.social. [1/5]
Turkey’s AI-Powered Protest Crackdown
Documents show that Ankara is expanding facial recognition policing while circumventing legal safeguards, charging demonstrators with little to no proof of wrongdoing
newlinesmag.com
My brilliant friend @yleniagostoli.bsky.social on how Ankara expands facial recognition to detain protesters.
Ylenia Gostoli@yleniagostoli.bsky.social · last yr.#Turkey is accelerating its use of facial recognition to detain and prosecute protesters - often with little or no evidence. I’ve been investigating how #AI is contributing to the erosion of the rule of law & supercharging authoritarianism 🧵 newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu... @newlinesmag.bsky.social
#Turkey is accelerating its use of facial recognition to detain and prosecute protesters - often with little or no evidence. I’ve been investigating how #AI is contributing to the erosion of the rule of law & supercharging authoritarianism 🧵 newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu... @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Turkey’s AI-Powered Protest Crackdown
Documents show that Ankara is expanding facial recognition policing while circumventing legal safeguards, charging demonstrators with little to no proof of wrongdoing
newlinesmag.com
NEW: Turkey is expanding AI-powered surveillance, prosecuting protesters based on facial recognition and scant evidence, reports @yleniagostoli.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/tu...
Turkey’s AI-Powered Protest Crackdown
Documents show that Ankara is expanding facial recognition policing while circumventing legal safeguards, charging demonstrators with little to no proof of wrongdoing
newlinesmag.com
Proud that our investigation with @lighthousereports.com is a finalist for this prestigious award - alongside other amazing, mostly consortium-led projects. A testament to the power of collaboration
Global Investigative Journalism Network@gijn.org · last yr.Turkey’s EU-Funded Deportation Machine This collaborative cross-border project showed how the European Union has effectively, and secretly, outsourced its migrant deportation system to an inhumane removals network in Turkey. https://twp.ai/9PStok
The #PKK has announced it will disband and lay down arms - while the first is unlikely to be undone, the second is a technical process that will take months. Now the ball is in the government's court.
Al tribunale di #cağlayan, #Istanbul: quasi 100 studenti e 8 giornalisti a processo per le proteste di #Sarachane. I giornalisti, accusati di aver partecipato alle manifestazioni, dovranno dimostrare… di essere giornalisti. #turchia
Iran e Stati Uniti provano a trattare sul nucleare, a Roma. In Turchia gli studenti ancora in piazza. Ascolta la nuova puntata del Mondo con Luciana Borsatti e Ylenia Gostoli. @lucianaborsatti.bsky.social @yleniagostoli.bsky.social
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Well-known investigative journalists Timur Soykan & Murat Ağırel were detained this morning in Turkey after a complaint by suspects in a money laundering case. Their homes were searched & their digital devices confiscated. FMA calls for their release because #JournalismIsNotACrime
Statement from our association: "FMA joins international media freedom groups in calling for an end to the crackdown on media in #Turkey, which has incl. police violence, home raids, detentions, & censorship measures that restrict access to news that is in the public interest."
Foreign Media Association@fma-turkey.bsky.social · last yr.FMA calls for the release of all journalists detained or arrested for covering ongoing protests in Turkey and an end to these acts of intimidation against a free press. Full statement: fmaturkey.org/journalists-...
Eight journalists detained in house raids in #Turkey this morning
MLSA@mlsaturkey.org · last yr.Bu sabah yapılan operasyonlarda NOW Muhabiri Ali Onur Tosun, foto muhabir Bülent Kılıç, gazeteci Zeynep Kuray, AFP muhabiri Yasin Akgül, gazeteci Hayri Tunç, İBB foto muhabiri Kurtuluş Arı, Sendika.org muhabiri Zişan Gür ve BirGün yazarı Barış İnce gözaltına alındı
"The reality remains that the Kurdish issue did not originate with the PKK, nor will it disappear with the PKK's dissolution." @MEMRIReports www.memri.org/reports/what...
What Does Öcalan's Announcement Really Mean?
Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has called for a significant shift in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. He urges the PKK to disarm and dissolve itself, advoca...
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Trump's aid freeze has already wrought havoc in Syria, where the majority of the population needs humanitarian aid: clinics close, clean-water distribution is cut back, bread distribution ends, etc. @yleniagostoli.bsky.social @newhumanitarian.bsky.social www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...
US aid freezes escalate Syria’s crisis
Aid officials involved in the response say people are already suffering and predict huge problems ahead due to the abrupt end of programmes.
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#Turkey: IPI joins @mlsaturkey.org & 13 other orgs to call for immediate release of journalists @yildiztar.bsky.social , Elif Akgül, Ercüment Akdeniz & Ender İmrek, detained on Feb 18. Their lawyers were denied access, investigation is under a confidentiality order.👇 https://buff.ly/4hWOYXM
Feels like an appropriate first piece to share on this platform… Since #Trump and #Musk decided to slash foreign aid, medical clinics and malnutrition centres in #Syria have shut down. At least 6 NGOs have halted clean water services for 430,000 people. Food aid has stopped for tens of thousands.
The New Humanitarian@newhumanitarian.bsky.social · last yr.Aid officials involved in the response in Syria say people are already suffering due to Trump’s aid freeze and predict huge problems ahead as vital programmes abruptly shut services: ⬇️
