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Ten more people detained in Ankara bombing probe: PM

October 15, 2015 creative ahmet-davutoglu, ankara, saturday, street-vendor, syria, turkey, twitter, victims

Ten more people have been detained in connection with messages they wrote on Twitter about the suicide bombings which killed 99 people in Ankara, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday, bringing the number held to 12. Davutoglu told Reuters on Wednesday some of the suspects in Saturday's attack, the worst of its kind in Turkey, had spent months in Syria and could be linked to Islamic State or to Kurdish militants.

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Thailand scraps unpopular Internet ‘Great Firewall’ plan

October 15, 2015 creative ahmet-davutoglu, bangkok, former-finance, government, least-popular, minister-somkid, putting-paid, street-vendor, syria, the-government, turkey, twitter

Thailand's military government has scrapped a plan to create a single Internet gateway, a deputy prime minister said on Thursday, putting paid to a system aimed at allowing authorities to monitor content. The plan to consolidate Thailand's 10 Internet gateways into one central government-controlled point had been one of the government's least popular ideas since it came to power following a bloodless coup last year. Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak, a former finance minister, said the plan had been halted