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Erdogan promises tighter gun controls after deadly Turkey school attacks

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ANKARA, April 20 (Reuters) - Turkey will tighten gun-ownership rules and increase penalties for owners whose children find the firearms, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday after last week's rare, deadly school shootings.The second of the two separate attacks by students last week killed eight pupils and a teacher in a southeastern province of Kahramanmaras, shocking a nation in which such school-based violence is very rare.Erdogan said the government will also take additional steps to monit

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