Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Yiğitbaşı spoke in Manisa: We are radically transforming our security concept with high-tech projects

Yiğitbaşı visited Manisa Governorship within the scope of Manisa program. Yiğitbaşı signed the Governorship Book of Honor and received information about the work carried out in the city from Governor Vahdettin Özkan.

Later, Yiğitbaşı attended the Manisa Celal Bayar University (MCBÜ) 2026-2027 Academic Year Opening Ceremony held at the Süleyman Demirel Cultural Center and gave the opening lecture titled "Safe Future in the Digital World: New Generation Threats, Crimes and Fighting Methods".

Yiğitbaşı stated that the boundaries between the virtual world and the real world have disappeared, traditional criminal structures have turned into multi-centered network structures using the opportunities of the digital world, and explained that disinformation and manipulative content have turned into a security element that threatens public order.

Referring to the security efforts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yiğitbaşı said:

"We are radically transforming our security concept with the high-tech projects we have implemented under the coordination of our Ministry of Internal Affairs and within the body of our Gendarmerie General Command. In this context, while we are taking inter-institutional coordination to the highest level in the pursuit of cyber fraud, illegal betting and digital crime proceeds with the DOLUNAY Project, we are creating a strong infrastructure for our big data analytics, crime prediction and artificial intelligence applications, thanks to the Gendarmerie Law Enforcement Operations Project. By combining this infrastructure with the Gendarmerie Smart Patrol Application in the field, we are creating artificial intelligence for our law enforcement units. We provide intelligence-supported facial and license plate recognition capabilities, and we put our fight against organized crime organizations on a scientific basis with the PARS Crime Analysis Application. Thanks to the DETECTIVE application we developed, our JASAT units can solve even the cases that remained unsolved in the past in a short time. With our artificial intelligence-based ORACLE project, where all these systems are crowned, we activate three special modules that predict drugs, theft and traffic accidents. Thanks to our dynamic scenario definition ability, we detect risky areas before a crime is committed and bring our preventive law enforcement approach to the field. We reflect."

Speaking at the program, Governor Özkan stated that young people have more advantages than previous generations in accessing information and using information technologies, and stated that risks should also be managed in addition to the opportunities offered by digitalization.

MCBU Rector Prof. Dr. Rana Kibar gave information about the 35-year development of the university, education and research activities, industry collaborations and the goal of being a research university.

In the program where the university's promotional film was shown, a musical concert was presented, and awards were given to academics who achieved success with their scientific studies.