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.

Donor nations have pledged to give billions of dollars in aid to Syrians as world leaders gathered for a conference to tackle the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with Turkey reporting a new exodus of tens of thousands fleeing air strikes.

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.

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Turkey’s prime minister dismissed any suggestion Ankara should apologise for downing a Russian warplane in its airspace last week, after winning strong NATO support for the right to defend itself.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hailed a big victory for his ruling party in parliamentary elections and demanded the world respect the result.

Kurdish opponents of president blame him for fatal attack on rally

Turkish jets hit Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq and the government said strikes would continue until the rebels lay down their arms, despite calls earlier by the pro-Kurdish opposition for an immediate end to the violence and the resumption of peace efforts.

Prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu has rejected accusations that Turkey previously tacitly supported Islamic State (IS) militants operating from Syria and unwittingly opened the door to a suicide bombing that killed at least 32 people.

Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu resigned yesterday in a procedural move after a parliamentary election but will remain in his post until a new government is formed, president Tayyip Erdogan’s office said in a statement.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s office says he has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s government.

In a stunning rebuke of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitions to expand his powers, Turkish voters have stripped his party of its simple majority in parliament, preliminary election results show.

Syria warns of ‘aggression’ as 40 Turkish troops brought home

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been sworn in as Turkey’s first popularly elected president, a position that will keep him in the nation’s driving seat for at least another five years.

Turkey’s embattled government vowed action over the bugging of a security meeting on Syria which was leaked on YouTube, labelling it a conspiratorial “plot” ahead of key local elections.

France’s foreign minister says the international community may have to use force if it is proven that Syria used chemical weapons in an attack the opposition says killed more than 100 people.

Syria's bombardment of its citizens should be declared a war crime, Turkey's foreign minister told the World Economic Forum.

Clashes have been reported near the airport of the Syrian capital, Damascus, as internet and mobile phones continued to be cut off for a third day.

Turkey’s foreign minister has joined an appeal for a ceasefire to stop the bloodshed in Syria during a Muslim holiday.

Syria has banned Turkish Airlines flights from its air space, according to state-run news agency SANA.

Nato’s governing body will meet tomorrow to discuss the Syrian downing of a Turkish plane.

Nato’s governing body will meet on Tuesday to discuss the Syrian downing of a Turkish plane, a spokesman said today.

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

Turkey’s foreign minister said a Turkish jet was downed in international airspace after it mistakenly entered Syria, but the plane was not on a spying mission.

Turkey has declared that a peace plan by UN envoy Kofi Annan is the “last chance” for the embattled Syrian regime and that it will face “strong measures” from the international community if it fails to implement the deal.

Twelve Turkish soldiers died today in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

MIDDLE EAST powerhouse Turkey yesterday warned against a sectarian Cold War in the region and said rising Sunni-Shi’ite tensions would be “suicide” for the whole region.

Turkey slapped economic sanctions on the Syrian regime today.

Syria has lashed out at the Arab League’s ultimatum to agree by today to allow an observer mission into the country or face sanctions.

Syria has agreed “in principle” to allow an observer mission into the country, a senior official in Damascus said today, as fresh anti-government protests erupted and France called for the UN to act against President Bashar Assad.

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.

SYRIAN tanks and troops swept into two north-western towns near the Turkish border, killing one person and wounding 13 according to activists, as Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan accused Syria of aiming guns at its own people.

Syrian president Bashar Assad came under a new barrage of international pressure with the Turkish foreign minister urging him to stop killing protesters and US officials saying the Obama administration is preparing to explicitly demand his departure.

THE Syrian army launched raids on rebel areas yesterday, defying growing international reproach over the regime’s crackdown on the five-month-old uprising.

The Syrian regime faced a chorus of global reproach today as envoys from Turkey, India, Brazil and South Africa headed to Damascus to press President Bashar Assad to end his violent crackdown on a five-month-old uprising.

Turkey’s foreign minister is travelling to Damascus to press the Syrian leadership into ending the violent crackdown on the five-month-old uprising.