ANKARA
In total, 24 cyber-attacks have been carried out against Anadolu Agency since January 1, 2014, said Turkish Deputy PM Bulent Arinc on Friday.
Responding to parliamentary questions over cyber-attacks against governmental institutions under the responsibility of Arinc's office, the deputy PM said the cyber-attacks targeting AA had generally orginated from the United States, Canada and China.
AA was namely the target of cyber-attacks by hacker groups, Red Hack and Anonymous, during Turkey’s municipal election night last March, of which the results were directly broadcast by AA, from polling stations for the first time in the agency’s history.
Arinc also stressed that AA has strengthened its internet security infrastructure since the beginning of the year.
Anadolu Agency aims to become one of the world’s top five news agencies in the world by 2020, its 100th anniversary.
AA plans to provide news in 11 languages by 2020. It currently broadcasts in Turkish, Arabic, English, Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian, Russian, Kurdish, and French languages.
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