Five people, including three children, were electrocuted at a water park pool in north-west Turkey and have died, according to media reports.

Prosecutors in Istanbul are seeking 40 consecutive life sentences for the man who attacked a nightclub in Istanbul during New Year's celebrations, killing 39 people, Turkey's state-run news agency reported.

Three police officers have been killed and three others wounded by a roadside bomb in a pre-dominantly Kurdish city in south-east Turkey, according to reports.

Update 1.25pm: Turkish police are closing in on the gunman who killed 39 people at an Istanbul nightclub, a senior official said, insisting his possible whereabouts and contacts had been established.

Turkey and Russia have reached an agreement on a plan for a ceasefire comprising the whole of Syria, Turkey's state-run news agency said.

Police have detained a man who fired shots in front of the US embassy in Ankara, several hours after the Russian ambassador to Turkey was killed in an attack.

The PKK is being blamed for a bomb attack in central Turkey which has killed at least 13 people.

Thirteen soldiers have been killed and 48 other military personnel injured in a car bomb attack in Turkey, military officials said.

A ceasefire deal between rebels and the Syrian government in the city of Aleppo has broken down, threatening plans to evacuate the remaining fighters and tens of thousands of civilians.

Update 9.05pm: It is being reported at least 13 people have been killed following an explosion in Istanbul.

Six arrests have been made after 12 people, mainly pupils, died in a fire at a school in Turkey.

Turkey's government has withdrawn a controversial proposal that critics said would have allowed men accused of sexually abusing under-age girls to go free if they were married to their victims.

Turkish jets and artillery have struck US-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, killing as many as 200 fighters, according to Turkey's state-run news agency.

Nine soldiers and eight civilians have been killed when Kurdish militants detonated a car bomb outside a military checkpoint in south-east Turkey, the local governor said.

At least 11 police officers have died and 78 other people are injured after Kurdish militants attacked a police checkpoint in south-east Turkey with an explosives-laden truck.

Turkey's artillery has shelled Islamic State group targets across the border in Syria for the second consecutive day.

Update 10.36am: A bomb attack on an outdoor wedding party in south-eastern Turkey that killed 50 people and wounded dozens of others was the work of the so-called ‘Islamic State’ group, the country's president said.

A billboard displayed this week in Istanbul’s main airport warned travellers against visiting Sweden, describing it as having the highest rate of rape in the world, the latest salvo between EU-candidate Turkey and its European allies.

Two car bombings targeting police stations in Turkey killed at least six people and injured at least 219 others, officials said.

Turkish authorities have issued a warrant for the arrest of former football star and legislator Hakan Sukur over his links to a US-based Muslim cleric, accused by Turkey of masterminding last month’s failed coup.

Turkey’s justice minister has said that Anti-American sentiment among Turks is on the rise and will only be calmed if the US extradites the Muslim cleric whom Ankara accuses of orchestrating last month’s failed coup.

Warplanes are patrolling Turkey's skies days following the failed coup, in a sign that authorities fear the threat against the government is not yet over.

Police in Turkey have detained 13 people on suspicion of involvement in the deadly suicide attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport.

A court has convicted a former Miss Turkey of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan through social media postings and handed her a 14-month suspended sentence.

Two Turkish opposition journalists have been jailed for two years for publishing French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's controversial cover featuring a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.

The European Union has welcomed in 74 Syrian refugees from Turkey and sent more than 300 migrants back there under a new agreement between the EU and Ankara.

Turkey's military has carried out air strikes against Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq hours after a deadly bombing in Ankara, the state-run news agency said.

EU leaders are meeting in Brussels today to discuss the ongoing refugee crisis.

Latest: At least five people have been killed and ten others injured in an explosion that rocked the Turkish capital, the governor of Ankara has said.

Four people have been injured in an explosion at a school in the Turkish city of Kilis, near the border with Syria.

Turkish tanks and artillery have attacked Islamic State positions in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for the suicide bombing in Istanbul which killed 10 tourists, Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.

Turkish police have arrested five people suspected of direct links to the suicide bombing that killed 10 Germans in Istanbul's main tourist area.

Turkish police suspect militants planned New Year’s Eve attacks

An Islamic State militant suspected of planning a suicide attack against the US Consulate in Istanbul has been arrested in Turkey.

Six children have died in a fire at a school teaching the Koran in Turkey today, the state-run news agency has reported.