There were no immediate reports of damage or deaths.

Turkish police have launched a murder inquiry after a 64-year-old Irishman was stabbed to death in the resort of Bodrum.

EVERY now and then a photograph appears that brings the world to a standstill and makes us all pause for breath. 

During the past year, right-wing populist politicians have been on the march, in France, the US and even in Germany, where chancellor Angela Merkel’s generous response to the migration crisis has left her exposed, politically, as never before.

The body of a baby has been found washed up on a beach on the Greek island of Kos.

Seventeen refugees drowned when their boat sank yesterday off the Turkish coast while headed for the Greek island of Kos, the Anadolu Agency reported.

THE scale of Europe’s refugee crisis appears immense but it could attain biblical proportions in the not too distant future because of the failure of EU nations to agree a common strategy, the lethargy of the United Nations and, notably, climate change.

Days after the world’s conscience was shocked by the image of a dead toddler washed up on a Turkish beach, all that was stopping more refugees from making the same crossing was the media frenzy on the shore.

A Syrian woman and her two young sons who drowned on a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece were buried in their hometown of Kobani, returning to the conflict-torn Syrian Kurdish region they had fled.

One family’s desperate attempt to forge a new life for themselves in fleeing the Syrian civil war has focused world attention on the refugees’ plight by means of one extraordinarily powerful image, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

The father of two toddlers who drowned with their mother and several other migrants as they tried to reach Greece identified their bodies yesterday and prepared to take them back to their home town of Kobani.

An image of a drowned toddler washed up on the beach in one of Turkey’s prime tourist resorts swept across social media after at least 12 Syrian refugees died trying to reach the Greek island of Kos.

Rightly or wrongly, it has long been the tradition of news media companies, including this one, to not publish some of the most disturbing photographs that emanate from war zones, areas of conflict and man-made or natural disasters.

Five people have drowned off the Turkish coast, as they tried to reach the Greek islands, officials said.

From budget breaks in Bodrum to direct flights to Canada, Travel Writer of the Year Pól Ó Conghaile picks his top overseas destinations for 2014.

Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, Canary Islands

Kate Moss is reportedly detoxing in Turkey.

Turkey protestors and riot police have clashed for a second day in the city of Istanbul.

THE surprising thing about the Museum Hotel is not what it is — a museum and a hotel — but where it is, in Cappadocia, in eastern Turkey.

From Cancun to the Costa Navarino, here we tip ten of the top destinations to visit this year. And it’s not all armchair travel, either...

With just 300,000 traditional package holidays on the market this year — down from over a million at the height of the boom — tour operators are encouraging summer holidaymakers to book as early as possible.

THERE’S no doubt about it, Irish people are taking fewer foreign holidays.

THINK Turkey and the standard images of turbans, complex relationships with the Greeks and delightful sweets usually come to mind, often zooming into view on the back of a flying carpet.

TAKE THE FERRY TO RESTOCK WINE CABINET

TURKEY attracted more than 90,000 visitors from Ireland this year, and Sunworld Holidays has just launched the most extensive holiday programme ever from Ireland.

SUNWORLD has launched its biggest holiday programme for summer 2008.

I WISH to thank the wonderful passengers on the Turkish airline Onur Air flight from Cork to Bodrum on September 8 who saved my life.

LIMERICK’S two internationally known celeb millionaires displayed very different tastes in food and travel, last Saturday.

A moderate earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck Turkey’s Aegean coast today, sending residents into the streets in panic and toppling the minaret of a mosque.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4, shook Turkey’s Aegean coast today shaking residents and tourists in their sleep but causing no injuries or serious damage.

Two moderate earthquakes shook Turkey’s Aegean coast hours apart today.

Turkish police have detained 129 illegal immigrants after their ship began sinking.