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.

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.

At least nine people have been killed in a car bomb attack on a police station in southeast Turkey.

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.

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

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.

Thousands of Kurds, many coming from Germany, rallied in Paris this afternoon over the killing of three top Kurdish activists in the city this week.

A roadside bomb attack killed nine people travelling on a minibus today, authorities said, in the latest violence to shake Turkey's turbulent south-east, where Kurdish guerrillas have been fighting for autonomy for decades.

The Turkish army clashed with Kurdish rebels in the south east and northern Iraq in their deadliest battle in eight months, as the government pledged there would be no let-up.

Turkish authorities were today trying to establish the identity of bombers who killed 17 people in blasts at a crowded Istanbul square.

Turkish F-16 jets buzzed over the small Turkish hilltop town of Cukurca today as elite commandos chased Kurdish guerrillas across the border in northern Iraq in a major ground operation.

Turkish helicopters attacked Kurdish rebel positions in mountains near the Iraq border today as troops kept up pressure on the guerrillas.

Turkish troops killed more than 30 Kurdish rebels as they set up an ambush near the border with Iraq, it emerged today.

Turkey today rejected a ceasefire announced by Kurdish rebels and continued with its troop build-up on the border with Iraq.

Turkey's foreign minister arrived in Baghdad today for talks with his Iraqi counterpart and the nation's president, both Kurds, on the border crisis.

Turkey's parliament overwhelmingly approved a possible cross-border offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq today.

A parked car bomb struck an open-air market north-east of Baghdad today, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than two dozen, police said.

Turkish security forces killed 10 Kurdish rebels and confiscated explosives and weapons in south-eastern Turkey, local officials said today.

A suicide bomber blew himself up today on a minibus in the Turkish tourist resort of Kusadasi, killing at least four people.