32 Anonymous suspects arrested in Turkey

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Turkish police are reported to have detained 32 people in connection with internet attacks that have disrupted access to government websites.

Alleged members of the loosely-knit Anonymous hacktivist group were rounded up in 12 cities, including Ankara and Istanbul, just days after similar arrests of Anonymous suspects in Spain.

At the end of last week, in an attack that was dubbed "Operation Turkey", Anonymous supporters brought down Turkish government websites in protest against controversial plans by the authorities in the country to introduce internet filtering.

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As the sites became inaccessible via the internet, Anonymous supporters weren't slow to celebrate their achievement on Twitter.

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The sites were brought down by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, with different computers around the world being deployed to bombard the sites with traffic using the LOIC attack tool.

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