A military helicopter has crashed in south-east Turkey where troops are fighting Kurdish rebels, killing three soldiers on board. Four other soldiers were injured.

Turkey has called for an extraordinary Nato meeting over the downing of its plane by Syria in international airspace, according to state television.

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.

Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of five more victims of Turkey’s latest earthquake, increasing the death toll to at least 17, including a Japanese aid worker who came after last month’s devastating quake.

Rescuers have pulled out a man alive from the rubble of a collapsed building four days after a powerful earthquake hit eastern Turkey, killing 532 people.

A powerful quake has killed 30 people and injured 150 others in the eastern town of Ercis, according to state television.

Thirty two Kurdish rebels have been killed in a Turkish military offensive in south-eastern Turkey, according to state-run television.

Turkey is preparing to challenge Israel’s blockade on Gaza at the International Court of Justice, turning up the tension between the once close allies.

A Turkish construction company is halting operations in neighbouring Iraq in a bid to save the lives of 10 employees kidnapped by militants.

A Turkish construction company announced today that it was halting operations in neighbouring Iraq in a bid to save the lives of 10 employees kidnapped by militants.

Rescuers and villagers sifting through earthquake rubble recovered the bodies of two more people today, raising the death toll in eastern Turkey to nine.