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Re:Apple stopped sales in Turkey after the lira crashed 15% ... by mrtksn on Saturday November 27, 2021 @03:46PM (#29363235)
Devices, SIM cards and identities must be matched in Turkey, so that nobody does anything naughty. They also make the service providers keep tower signal logs worth of many years, so it's common to prove your whereabouts in courts by requesting these logs.

On the plus side, you can see and manage all your data from the government portal. It's rather convenient to be able to see all the subscriptions(GSM, TV and so on) on your name and cancel them from there if you wish. Totalitarian control has its perks.

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Re:Apple stopped sales in Turkey after the lira crashed 15% ... by sushsjsuauahab on Saturday November 27, 2021 @04:53PM (#29363951)
>So that nobody does anything naughty

Ah yes, now I know why all of those shootings and mass murders happened in the Turkish airport-- there was no system for mapping identities to SIM cards!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Atatürk_Airport_attack

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Re:Apple stopped sales in Turkey after the lira crashed 15% ... by mrtksn on Saturday November 27, 2021 @05:07PM (#29364048)
The security aspect was more of a pretext to force people purchase the heavily taxed officially imported mobile phones.

Obviously, the usefulness for prevention of such attacks would be limited, it's more about identifying the offenders. It's also useful for surveillance, as you would expect a totalitarian state would like.

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Re:Apple stopped sales in Turkey after the lira crashed 15% ... by AdamJacobMuller on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:24PM (#29383243)
> cancel them from there if you wish

You can cancel such services from a government portal? That's nearly worth living under an authoritarian regime.

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