Have you seen a turkey acting suspiciously lately?

Syrian government forces have started deploying in areas close to the Turkish border in the north-east of the country, state media has reported.

The prospect of Garda security services having to arrest Irish Islamic State supporter Lisa Smith as soon as she steps off a plane from Turkey looks to have receded, after the family indicated she was “willing to talk to anyone to clear her name”.

James Le Mesurier was found dead outside his home in Istanbul on November 11.

Reuters is reporting two Irish citizens connected to ISIS are to be deported from Turkey in the coming days.

Thirteen civilians have been killed in a car bomb blast in a northern Syrian town along the border with Turkey.

US vice president Mike Pence has said the United States and Turkey have agreed to a ceasefire in Syria.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s hands are stained in the blood of civilians, the results of the intentions of a strongman striking against a stateless people — the Kurds.

International medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has suspended the majority of its activities and evacuate all its international staff from northeast Syria.

The camp is home to some 12,000 people, including nearly 1,000 foreign women with links to IS and their children.

Turkish ground forces have moved across the border to fight against Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria, hours after Turkish jets and artillery pounded areas in Syria’s northern border

Simon Coveney said the action risks undermining the progress made this year in the fight against Islamic State.

Turkey’s military will “shortly” cross into Syria together with allied Syrian rebel forces after President Donald Trump announced US troops would withdraw from the area.

An armed gang has attacked a Turkish cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria and kidnapped 10 of the vessel's crew members, Turkey's state-run news agency said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi did not die of natural causes but that he was killed.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has challenged nations who label the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide, saying they should inspect Turkey's Ottoman-era archives and "we have nothing to hide".

Beijing has condemned Turkey over its claim that a celebrated musician from China's Turkic Muslim Uighur ethnic group has died in custody.

At least seven cars have been swept away in floods in Turkey.

There is a call for Ireland to take a stand to make sure journalists around the world are protected.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Saudi officials planned to murder journalist Jamal Khashoggi days before his death.

A statue of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that was installed at a German art festival has been taken down after authorities said it was becoming a security issue.

Arriving in Istanbul airport early last week, it was clear that the currency dealers were not going to be out of pocket as the lira crises raged on the back of the Turkish dispute with the US, writes John Whelan.

European shares slipped yesterday as investors licked their wounds after a tumultuous week, eyeing further turbulence in emerging markets and weakness in tech stocks.

A senior Barclays trader has faced losses of about £15m (€16.8m) on Turkish bonds over the past few days, according to sources.

Its deteriorating financial situation is typical of an emerging market and was inevitable, but the worst will come to pass if the president continues to be aggressively isolationist, says Jim O'Neill

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to boycott iPhones in a demonstration of defiance as the US held firm to its demand that Turkey release an evangelical pastor, and Turkish executives called for action to bolster the lira.

The ECB should keep providing a shield to the government securities of all monetary union members to avoid a dismantling of the euro system, a top politician from Italy’s ruling coalition said.

The butterfly effect is a description of how one seemingly irrelevant action has enormous consequences in an apparently unrelated outcome.

US President Donald Trump says he has authorised the doubling of steel and aluminium tariffs "with respect to Turkey".

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a decisive victory in last weekend’s poll but what are the long-term implications, Arlene Getz asks Professor Howard Eissenstat

The opponents of Turkey’s president, Recep Erdogan, especially those in jail, have little or no chance of replacing him as that country’s leader, after Sunday’s elections.

A Syrian Kurdish militia has announced it is pulling out of a key northern Syrian town in a move that could ease a serious rift between Nato allies Turkey and the United States.

Perennial favourite destinations such as Turkey and Tunisia are beginning to become popular with Irish holidaymakers once more as the threat of terrorism has receded.

Nurcan Baysal has been accused of treachery, terrorism and spreading hate on Twitter. She tells Caroline O’Doherty her fight against human rights abuses in Turkey will go on

In recent weeks, the currencies and bonds of indebted countries have plunged into crisis and IMF bailouts again loom. Kyran Fitzgerald surveys the risks to the rest of the world.

A Turkish court has convicted journalists and other senior staff members from an opposition newspaper on terror charges, in a case that has exacerbated concerns over press freedom.

Dozens of people have been injured after an earthquake hit south-eastern Turkey, officials said.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called early parliamentary and presidential elections for June 24.

Greek authorities are reporting a significant upsurge in migrants crossing the border following Turkey's operations in northern Syria.

Turkey has warned Greece to refrain from "provocations" after a Greek flag was hoisted on a disputed, uninhabited islet in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish coast.

A cargo ship has crashed into a historic mansion on Istanbul's Bosporus Strait, severely damaging the building.

A research assistant has shot and killed four staff members at a university in central Turkey, the university's president said.

The leaders of Russia, Iran and Turkey have met in Ankara for talks on resolving the conflict in Syria.

The leaders of Russia and Turkey have launched the start of construction for Turkey's first nuclear power plant, as ties between the two nations deepen.

On the eve of Ireland’s friendly defeat in Turkey last Friday, Seamus Coleman conceded that, as the team captain — and a Premier League player to boot — the focus of attention would inevitably be on his welcome in a green shirt after a year out through injury.

Colin Doyle left Turkey hoping he does not have to wait another decade or more to collect his third Republic of Ireland cap.

Declan Rice has insisted his heart remains with the Republic of Ireland after he made an impressive senior debut in Turkey.

Seamus Coleman has admitted his frustration at watching the Republic of Ireland's World Cup dream slip away as he sat helplessly by.

No real ‘dawn of a new era’ headlines from Turkey, I’m afraid, as Ireland went down 1-0 on a night which, above all, was a reminder that neither of these teams will be starring in Russia in a few months.