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

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

Turkish special forces captured a group of rebel commandos who tried to seize or kill President Tayyip Erdogan during a failed coup, and a government minister said plotters would “never see God’s sun as long as they breathe”.

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.

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

Authorities have recovered the bodies of at least 36 migrants who drowned off Turkey after their boats overturned in rough waters as they tried to reach the Greek island of Lesbos, said authorities.

Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan, who is pushing for executive powers, cited Hitler’s Germany as an example of an effective presidential system, in comments broadcast by Turkish media yesterday.

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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.

A Syrian woman and her two young sons who drowned on a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece were buried in their hometown of Kobani, returning to the conflict-torn Syrian Kurdish region they had fled.

Two gunmen have opened fire at the US Consulate building in Istanbul, sparking a gunfight with police, Turkish media reports said.

Turkish warplanes struck Islamic State (IS) targets across the border in Syria, government officials said, a day after IS militants fired at a Turkish military outpost, killing a soldier.

Two members of a banned leftist group and the man they took hostage have died following a shoot-out.

Turkish police defused an improvised bomb found in a mall in an eastern suburb of Istanbul today, according to the private Dogan news agency.

Three people were arrested on charges of negligence over the Turkish mining disaster in which 301 people died, a prosecutor said today.

Anger and grief boiled over into a violent protest in the western Turkish town of Soma, where officials said at least 274 miners died in a coal mine explosion and fire.

Women wailed uncontrollably, men knelt sobbing and others just stared in disbelief outside a coal mine in western Turkey as rescue workers removed a steady stream of bodies from an underground explosion and fire that killed at least 238 workers.

A passenger bus in Turkey has veered off a snow-covered road and tipped on its side, killing 21 people and injuring 20 others, officials said.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again dismissed street protests against his rule as organised by extremists, described them as a temporary blip and angrily rejected comparisons with the Arab Spring uprisings.

Protests in Istanbul and several other Turkish cities appear to have subsided, after days of fierce clashes following a police crackdown on a peaceful gathering.

Thousands of people flooded Istanbul’s main square today after a crackdown on an anti-government protests turned city streets into a battlefield clouded by tear gas, in scenes reminiscent of the Arab Spring.

Turkish police have let off tear gas and pressurised water against groups of protesters trying to reach a main Istanbul square for a second day of anti-government demonstrations.

A car bomb exploded near the police headquarters in central Damascus yesterday, killing at least one person and damaging buildings, Syria’s state-run news agency said.

Another mortar shell from Syria struck Turkish territory today, prompting a fourth straight day of retaliatory artillery fire, and reviving fears that the crisis in Syria could spiral into a regional conflict.

Syrian rebels have seized control of a crossing on the border with Turkey and pulled down the Syrian flag.

Turkey is deploying anti-aircraft weapons along the Syrian border, state television said today, days after a Turkish military jet was shot down by Syrian forces.

Thirty-five people killed in Turkish air strikes in Iraq are smugglers whom the military mistook for Kurdish rebels, Turkey said today.

The body of one of two journalists missing in the rubble of a hotel in Turkey has been discovered as the death toll in the second earthquake to strike the east of the country in recent weeks reached 25.

The death toll from Turkey’s latest earthquake rose to at least 13 today as rescue workers pulled another body from the rubble.

An 18-year-old university student was pulled out injured, but alive from the ruins of an apartment building early today, 61 hours after the devastating Turkey earthquake.

Thousands of people in eastern Turkey have spent a second night outdoors in near-freezing conditions, afraid to return to their homes following a deadly earthquake that has been followed by hundreds of aftershocks.

One person has died in an explosion in a Mediterranean town, Turkish authorities said.

A three-year-old boy survived a fall from a third-floor balcony in Turkey.

A strong earthquake hit eastern Turkey today, killing at least 57 people and knocking down houses in three small villages, the government said.

MEN armed with pistols and shotguns attacked a police guard post outside the US consulate in Istanbul, sparking a gunbattle that left three attackers and three officers dead.

Armed men opened fire today on Turkish police guarding the front entrance to the US consulate in Istanbul, killing three policemen in what Turkish and US officials called a terrorist attack. Three assailants were also reported killed.

TURKISH investigators found the body of an Italian artist, last seen in March hitchhiking in a wedding gown, and detained a man suspected of murdering her, officials said on Saturday.

A Turkish news agency says police have foiled an alleged plot to bomb US companies in the country.

Turkish forces pressed ahead with ground operations against Kurdish rebels in Iraq today after the military reported that five troops and several dozen rebels had been killed in the cross-border fighting.

Turkish troops killed 15 separatist Kurdish rebels today in a clash in south-eastern Turkey, the private Dogan news agency reported.

Attackers killed three people today at a publishing house that had been the subject of protests for distributing Bibles in Turkey, the government-run Anatolia news agency reported.

Holidaymakers at a Turkish hotel have been injured in a gas explosion.