AI system
- System
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ASENA (Analiz Sistemleri Narkotik Ağı), Turkish National Police narcotics analysis software
- Model
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Not assessed
- Release
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Not assessed
- Application developer
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Turkish National Police (Emniyet Genel Müdürlüğü), Narcotics Crimes Department; described as written by Turkish engineers, no contractor named
- Role
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Not assessed
- Configuration
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Not assessed
- Inputs and outputs
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Not assessed
- Autonomy
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Not assessed
- Workflow
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A police analysis program integrated with national identity, justice and interior databases that ranks vehicles or persons for interdiction. A fixed checkpoint on the Yüksekova-Van road at which a flagged car could be stopped and searched the same evening. Officers prepared to search a concealed compartment on a narcotics lead rather than a terrorism lead.
- Human oversight
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Not assessed
- Relation to AI
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The program supplied the lead and nothing more. The minister said the analysis programs, “what they call artificial intelligence”, had identified a suspicious vehicle thought to be carrying drugs. The Hakkari police chief called him on the evening of 20 March. Officers then stopped the car at a fixed checkpoint, searched the concealed compartment and arrested the driver; prosecutors and the court did the rest. No source describes the program's inputs, the data it matched, or whether an analyst reviewed the flag before the stop. The defendant spoke in court of “those who informed”, but no source reports an informant.
- AI contribution
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The program supplied the lead and nothing more. The minister said the analysis programs, “what they call artificial intelligence”, had identified a suspicious vehicle thought to be carrying drugs. The Hakkari police chief called him on the evening of 20 March. Officers then stopped the car at a fixed checkpoint, searched the concealed compartment and arrested the driver; prosecutors and the court did the rest. No source describes the program's inputs, the data it matched, or whether an analyst reviewed the flag before the stop. The defendant spoke in court of “those who informed”, but no source reports an informant.
Benefits
- Outcome identifiers
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Not assessed
- Benefit
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133 packets, 52.5 kg, of factory-made explosive
- Category
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Reduced Violence
- Status
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Not assessed
- Beneficiary groups
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Society. Organizations.
- Beneficiaries
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Not assessed
- Reach
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Not assessed
- Distribution and access
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Not assessed
- Duration
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Not assessed
- Expected?
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No
- Costs and harms
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Not assessed
Measurement
- Studies
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Not assessed
- Study design
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Not assessed
- Measurement
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Not assessed
- Setting and sample
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Not assessed
- Measures
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133 packets, 52.5 kg, of factory-made explosive
- Comparison
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Not assessed
- Results
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133 packets, 52.5 kg, of factory-made explosive
- Additional value from AI
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Not assessed
- Limitations
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Not assessed
- Denominators
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Not assessed
- Materials for replication
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Not assessed
Money
- Kind of value
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Not assessed
- Amount
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Not assessed
- Currency and prices
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Not assessed
- Period and unit
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Not assessed
- Realization
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Not assessed
- Recipients and payers
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Not assessed
- Gross or net
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Not assessed
- Included costs
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Not assessed
- Comparison
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Not assessed
- Method
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Not assessed
- Return and payback
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Not assessed
People and places
- Participants
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Developer: Turkish National Police (Emniyet Genel Müdürlüğü), Narcotics Crimes Department; described as written by Turkish engineers, no contractor named. Operator: Hakkari Provincial Police Directorate, Turkish National Police.
- Jurisdictions
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Benefit: Yüksekova,
Turkey. Developer: Turkey. Operator: Turkey. - Ownership and control
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Not assessed
- Dependencies
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Not assessed
- Cross-border connections
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Not assessed
- Geopolitical implications
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Not assessed
Follow-up
- Conditions for replication
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The flag must be followed by a lawful stop and physical search; the software only prioritizes. Seized material must be forensically assessed and the case prosecuted, as here with a 2023 conviction, for the counterfactual to stand. Analytic leads must be checked before a stop; the sources do not report the program's false-positive rate.
- Replication attempts
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Not assessed
- Later findings
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20 November 2023. On 20 November 2023 the Hakkari 2nd Heavy Penal Court sentenced the police officer A.K. to 21 years in prison and the four co-defendants to 17 years 6 months each.
- Availability
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Not assessed
- Institutional decision
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Not assessed
- Grounds
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Not assessed
- Action and result
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Not assessed
- Success criterion
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Not assessed
Evidence
- Source numbers
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AIBD-0112-source-0001–0008
- Citations
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Numbered references below.
- Language
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Not assessed
- Source relationships
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Independent
- Original evidence
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Not assessed
- Access and versions
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Not assessed
- Supported findings
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Not assessed
- Evidence links
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Not assessed
- Evidence strength
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Not assessed
- Missing evidence
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Not assessed
Grades
- Assessed benefits
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Society. Organizations.
- Depth
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Society: 4. Organizations: 2.
- Reasons
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Society: 52.5 kg of explosive assessed as PETN-RDX was seized before use. The minister said the target was Istanbul and the court convicted five men of supplying weapons to a terrorist organization. So the averted harm was potentially mass-casualty, though the specific plan was not established in the reporting. Organizations: The Hakkari police obtained a lead that produced a seizure, five arrests and five convictions. The minister counted it among 15 similar actions stopped that year.
- Observed or intended
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Not assessed
- Rubric
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Not assessed
- Assessor and date
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Not assessed
- Alternative assessments
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Not assessed
- Fill
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Independently reported
Entry details
- Kind
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Not assessed
- Related entries
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Not assessed
- Field
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Public safety and counter-terrorism policing. Government, security, and defense.
- Purpose
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ASENA (Analiz Sistemleri Narkotik Ağı) is the Turkish National Police's narcotics analysis software, in service since March 2021. Built to flag and investigate drug crime from integrated police and justice databases. The Hakkari flag was worked as a suspected drug shipment and the search found explosives instead, so this benefit was outside the system's design purpose.
- Dates
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Date basis unassessed: 2022 (precision unassessed). Updated: 21 October 2026.
- Stage
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Not assessed
- Version
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SHA-256: 00409ff3142b…
References
- Other identifiers
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oecd_aim: 2022-03-21-22fd.
- Category mappings
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Not assessed
- Brief
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Not assessed
- Revisions
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5 revisions. Latest: 21 October 2026.
Sources
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News report Independent author
Cumhuriyet (2022). Görüntüler ortaya çıktı: Aracında 52 kilo patlayıcı çıkan polis tutuklandı, Valilik açıklama yaptı. Cumhuriyet.
20 Mart 2022 günü saat 19.00 sıralarında Yüksekova ilçesi Yüksekova-Van Uygulama Noktası çıkışında bir araç durdurulduğu belirtildi
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News report Independent author
Hürriyet (2022). Bakan Soylu'dan polis aracında bulunan patlayıcıyla ilgili flaş açıklama: Hedef İstanbul'du. Hürriyet.
Bu yapay zeka dedikleri ve birçok bilgiyi üst üste koyarak oluşturdukları programlar. Buradan şüpheli bir aracı tespit ettiklerini söylediler. Uyuşturucu sevkiyatı olduğunu söylediler.
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News report Independent author
Son Dakika (2022). Polis memurunun 52 kilo patlayıcıyla yakalanması hakkında konuşan Bakan Soylu: Hedef İstanbul'du. Sondakika.com.
Hakkari İl Emniyet Müdürlüğünce Asena analiz programı üzerinden yapılan çalışmalar neticesinde, bir polis memurunun sürücülüğünü yaptığı araçta 133 parça halinde 52 kilo 500 gram patlayıcı madde ele geçirilmişti.
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News report Independent author
NTV (2022). Polis memuru 52,5 kilo patlayıcıyla yakalandı. NTV Haber.
stepne havuzunun alt kısmına yapılmış zula içerisine gizlenmiş vaziyette 133 parça halinde 52 kilo 500 gram patlayıcı madde ele geçirildi
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News report Independent author
Duvar English (2022). Opposition MP Ahmet Şık inquires about police officer caught with 52kg of explosives in Hakkari. Duvar English.
The police found 133 pieces of 52 kilograms and 500 grams of explosives in the spare wheel carrier of the car.
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News report Independent author
Anadolu Ajansı, Bulur, S. (2022). Yapay zeka ASENA uyuşturucunun izini sürüyor. Anadolu Ajansı.
e-Devlet ve UYAP ile İçişleri ve Adalet bakanlıklarının veri tabanlarıyla entegre çalışabilen yapay zeka formatında bir yazılım olan ASENA, yaklaşık 14 ay önce faaliyete geçirildi
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News report Independent author
Demirören Haber Ajansı, Özkan, M. (2023). 52 kilo patlayıcıyla yakalanan polis memuru: İhbar edenlerden Allah razı olsun. DHA.
Hakkari'de İl Emniyet Müdürlüğü'nce Asena analiz programı üzerinden yapılan çalışmalar ile İstanbul'da görev yapan polis memurunun kullandığı otomobil, 20 Mart'ta Yüksekova çıkışındaki polis kontrol noktasında durduruldu.
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News report Independent author
Kısa Dalga, from DHA (2023). Aracında 52 kilo patlayıcı bulunan polise 21 yıl hapis cezası. Kısa Dalga.
Savunmaları dinleyen mahkeme heyeti, "terör örgütüne silah sağlamak" suçundan polis memuru A.K. için 21 yıl, diğer 4 sanık için de 17 yıl 6'şar ay hapis cezası verdi.