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.

A plane has crashed in the countryside near Turkey's border with Syria, with preliminary information suggesting the aircraft belonged to Syria, a Turkish official says.

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.

Heavy snowfall and below-freezing temperatures have continued to sweep the European continent, causing more than a dozen deaths, grounding planes and crippling ferries in Italy and Turkey.

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.

A car bombing at a police checkpoint has wounded 48 people near the ruling party headquarters in the eastern Turkish city of Van, the governor's office said.

There has been an explosion near the Turkish ruling party's headquarters in the eastern city of Van, according to Turkey's state-run news agency.

A string of bombings, blamed on Kurdish rebels and targeting Turkey’s security forces, killed at least 11 people and wounded 226 others.

A Qatari passenger plane has made an emergency landing in Turkey after its engine caught fire.

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 sent a document to the United States seeking the arrest of cleric Fethullah Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania and whom Ankara accuses of instigating an attempted coup on July 15.

Twenty-one journalists are appearing in court in Istanbul after being detained as part of a sweeping crackdown following Turkey's failed military coup.

Turkey has issued warrants for the detention of 47 former executives and senior journalists of the Zaman newspaper, allegedly associated with a US-based Muslim cleric accused over the failed coup, according to the state-run news agency.

Turkey’s president has declared a three-month state of emergency after last week’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.

Around 1,800 special forces police officers have arrived in Istanbul as Turkey reels from the failed coup attempt that plunged the city and the capital Ankara into a night of violence.

Update - 7.45pm: Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the United States to extradite a Muslim cleric he accuses of being behind Turkey's failed coup attempt.

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

Turkey’s president has apologised to Moscow after a Russian jet was shot down at the Syrian border, Russian and Turkish officials said yesterday, a move that could open the way for easing a bitter strain in Russia-Turkey ties.

Five Irish citizens — three of them children — have flown out of Turkey after being caught up in the Islamic State (IS) terror attack in Istanbul, which claimed four lives.

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

Turkish police suspect militants planned New Year’s Eve attacks

A small plastic boat carrying refugees from Turkey has sunk off an eastern Greek island, drowning at least 13 people, mostly children, Greek authorities said.

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.

Turkish soldiers killed four suspected Islamic State militants today and authorities detained 11 demonstrators a day before leaders of the G20 group of economic powerhouses meet for a summit overshadowed by the slaughter in Paris.

Seventeen refugees drowned when their boat sank yesterday off the Turkish coast while headed for the Greek island of Kos, the Anadolu Agency reported.

Nearly 5,000 police officers have been deployed to protect Jewish schools across France as the country remains on the highest state of alert after last week's terror attacks.

Riot police cordoned off streets, set up roadblocks and fired tear gas and water cannon to stop anti-government protesters reaching Istanbul’s central Taksim Square yesterday, as Turkey’s prime minister addressed hundreds of thousands of supporters a few miles away.

Activists have presented a list of demands they said could end days of anti-government demonstrations that have engulfed Turkey, as trade unions joined in the outpouring of anger, shouting slogans and wielding banners calling on the prime minister to resign.

Syrian troops fought intense battles today against rebels who are trying to capture two military bases in the northwest and step up their attacks on army compounds elsewhere in the nation, activists said.

Turkish artillery has fired on Syrian targets for a second day, Turkey’s state-run media said, in retaliation for shelling from Syria that struck a border village, killing five civilians.

Kurdish rebels have attacked security posts in a Turkish town near the border with Iraq, killing nine security personnel, officials have revealed.

Iraq’s government is urging all of its citizens living in Syria to return home immediately to escape being hurt or killed in the country’s escalating civil war.

Dozens of Syria’s military have defected to Turkey with their families as tensions between the two countries grow over the shooting down of a Turkish jet fighter.