A suicide bomber blew himself up today beside a police vehicle in a major Istanbul square near tourist hotels and a bus terminal, wounding 32 people, including 15 policemen.

A suicide bomber blew himself up near police watching over Istanbul’s main square today, wounding 22 people, including 10 policemen, officials said.

A car bomb aimed at the Turkish military killed five people and wounded 68 - including 30 troops – in the Kurdish-dominated Turkish city of Diyarbakir.