Asena ( Analiz Sistemleri Narkotik Agı)

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2022: AI system start-up

On May 18, 2022, Turkey began using an artificial intelligence program called Asena in the fight against drug traffickers. Turkey has become a new transit point for drug smuggling, said Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu.

Soylu cites statistics according to which an average of 1.5 tons of drugs are confiscated annually in Turkey. According to Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu, the first results of the Analiz Sistemleri Narkotik Agı (Asena) system, which translates as a drug web analysis system. In four cases, out of 10 AI accurately leads law enforcement agencies to drug traffickers. The minister stressed that Asena once helped security units detect explosives in a police car. The developer of AI is the Turkish International Academy for Combating Drugs and Organized Crime.

In Turkey, an AI system has been launched, which identifies drug traffickers in 40% of cases

{{quote 'Now we have an artificial intelligence program. Since the system came into force, we have uncovered 3,593 cases of capture of criminals. The principle of work, I cannot reveal, but when a person goes to a province in which he has never been or uses routes that he has never traveled, and possibly stayed in a hotel in which he has never stayed until that moment. Then in this case, AI begins to monitor this user, conducting an analysis based on a comparison of various data, "said Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu. }} As of May 2022, according to information the Hurriyet Daily News, Turkish authorities consider drugs as the biggest threat to the state. Earlier, Turkey launched the "National Strategy and Actions to Combat Illegal Drugs 2018-2023," the country's fifth strategic document in the field of drug policy. The Turkish Penal Code provides for a prison sentence of one to two years for those who buy, receive, grow or store drugs for personal use.^[1]

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