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Suspect identified over Turkey suicide bomb attack

A suspect has been identified after a suicide bomb attack in Turkey killed at least 32 people, the country's Prime Minister has said.

The victims, mostly young students, had gathered in the mostly-Kurdish town of Suruc to make a statement to the local media regarding a trip they were planning to help rebuild the ravaged city of Kobani, Syria.

The PM added that the suspect was believed to have "clear" links to militant group Islamic State.

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Turkey increases border security after suicide bombing

Turkey has drawn up urgent measures to increase security along its fraught border with Syria, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has announced.

It comes after a suspected Islamic State suicide bomber killed 30 people - many of them student activists - in the border town of Suruc.

We have convened with security officials and planned the steps that we will be taking.

Measures on our border with Syria will continue, and will be increased.

– Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkish Prime Minister

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