An explosion and a fire killed at least 151 workers at a coal mine in western Turkey and hundreds more remained trapped underground.

The devastated daughter of murder victim Marion Graham has said the “horrendous” stabbing has torn her family apart.

A Turkish waiter has been jailed for life for the murder of two women from Co Down — but his father has walked free.

Verdicts in the trial of a waiter and his father accused of murdering two women from Co Down in Turkey have been pushed back for more psychiatric tests.

The trial of a Turkish father and son accused of murdering two Irish women in a holiday resort in Turkey has been adjourned.

Egyptian security forces have moved with deadly force to clear two sit-in camps of supporters of the country’s ousted president Mohammed Morsi, leading to wildly differing claims about the death toll.

Turkish police have detained at least 20 people allegedly involved in violent protests, as the country’s prime minister continued to lash out at protesters - and a BBC journalist – he claimed were part of a conspiracy to harm Turkey.

The trial of the Turkish father and son accused of killing two Irish women was halted yesterday after the representative for the Irish Government was caught taking photos in court.

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UN observers in Syria have entered a village where government forces reportedly killed dozens of people this week.

The teenage daughter of an Irishwoman murdered in Turkey was herself accused of aiding in the killing during a court session yesterday.

Warships will escort Turkish Gaza-bound aid ships in the future, Turkey’s prime minister said.

The Greek prime minister is meeting his Turkish counterpart in eastern Turkey and is expected to discuss his country’s plans to build a fence along part of their mutual border to try to stop thousands of illegal migrants crossing into EU member Greece every month.

Confusion and blame today surrounded the identity of bombers who killed 17 people in a crowded Istanbul square.

A car bomb aimed at the Turkish military killed four people and wounded up to 70 more in the Kurdish-dominated Turkish city of Diyarbakir today.

Turkish security teams are in position around the cities of Ankara and Istanbul today, as Pope Benedict XVI begins his first visit to a predominantly Muslim country.

A four-year-old boy – one of 21 people infected with the deadly strain of bird flu – has recovered and was discharged from hospital while another boy listed as critical was showing improvement, Turkish doctors and officials said today.

Turkey today raced to contain an outbreak of bird flu and reassure the world it had the potentially fatal illness under control, after preliminary tests showed at least 15 people – two of them children who have died – were infected with the deadly H5N1 strain.

At least 139 people were killed and 57 other injured when a high-speed train from Istanbul to Ankara derailed today, the government crisis centre said.

A suspected terrorist and three others were injured today when a bomb went off prematurely in the hands of the bomber at a small hotel in southern Turkey, private CNN-Turk television reported.

SUSPECTED al-Qaida suicide bombers targeted British interests in Istanbul yesterday, killing at least 27 people including the British consul, and leaving more than 450 injured in twin attacks.

Suspected al-Qaida suicide bombers targeted Istanbul again today, killing at least 27 people including the British consul, and leaving more than 450 injured in twin attacks.

RESCUERS dug frantically in the rubble of a school dormitory yesterday, hunting for 135 children believed trapped after a powerful earthquake rumbled through southeastern Turkey. Reports say up to 100 people were killed and 390 injured.