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as a native English speaker I transparently read that as,"there's no point in buying a GSM module [...]", but I can see how others might possibly be tripped up by that construction.

Oh this is interesting. I’d think it is implied enough that there would be no confusion.

My native Turkish might be seeping through though. Thanks for the heads up.

They mean you can buy the adapter, but it won’t work in Turkey as the EMEI isn’t on the official allowed list and isn’t registered.

From reading the message, it wouldn't work in Turkey because the IMEI is blocked

it is a whitelist, not a blacklist

FYI "ostensibly" means 'seemingly, but not actually'. In this case I think you mean just "seemingly".