Turkish warplanes struck Islamic State (IS) targets across the border in Syria, government officials said, a day after IS militants fired at a Turkish military outpost, killing a soldier.

President Tayyip Erdogan sought a crushing victory for his vision of a “new Turkey” at elections yesterday that would furnish him with sweeping executive powers opponents say could undermine democracy.

Turkey’s president has described violence against women as the “bleeding wound” of the country after a woman was stabbed and beaten to death after trying to fight off a man trying to rape her.

The jailed leader of Kurdish rebels fighting Turkey, has called for a truce after years of war.

A bomb exploded in Turkey’s largest city today, injuring 10 people and wrecking a police bus and nearby vehicles, authorities said.

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.

A roadside bomb attack killed nine people travelling on a minibus today, authorities said, in the latest violence to shake Turkey's turbulent south-east, where Kurdish guerrillas have been fighting for autonomy for decades.

Dozens of people were killed in their homes when an earthquake hit villages in eastern Turkey just before dawn today.

A strong earthquake hit eastern Turkey today, killing at least 57 people and knocking down houses in three small villages, the government said.

Some 38 people have been killed after a strong earthquake hit Turkey this morning.

EIGHT men suspected of gunning down 44 people during an engagement ceremony were arrested yesterday, accused of killing the betrothed couple – whose wedding they opposed – along with relatives and friends in a 15-minute rampage.

Turkish people were today voting in local elections that prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes will strengthen his party’s hand in pushing for constitutional reforms.

Police clashed with stone-throwing demonstrators across the country’s predominantly Kurdish south- east today during protests marking the 10th anniversary of a separatist rebel leader’s capture, state-run media said.

Turkish police have detained four people following a bomb attack yesterday in which five people were killed, a prosecutor said today.

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.

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.

A car bomb exploded in the Kurdish-dominated Turkish city of Diyarbakir today wounding at least 20 people, including some military personnel.

An Atlasjet plane crashed shortly before it was to land in central Turkey this morning, killing all 56 people on board, the airline’s chief executive said.

Turkish helicopters attacked Kurdish rebel positions in mountains near the Iraq border today as troops kept up pressure on the guerrillas.

A bomb explosion in Turkey early today injured four people in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, officials said.

A bomb exploded in one of the Turkish capital’s busiest commercial centres, killing six people and injuring about 80, authorities said.

Turkish authorities today detained a man who threatened to blow up a passenger plane to divert it to Iran, officials said.

Workers rescued a 15-year-old boy alive 36 hours after the collapse of an eight-storey apartment building that left five people dead in south-eastern Turkey, the governor’s office announced.

Turkish troops killed two Kurdish rebels in a clash in a rural area in south-eastern Turkey, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported today.

A heating boiler explosion today knocked down part of a five-storey building that houses military families in Diyarbakir, the largest city in south-east Turkey, the governor’s office said. At least three people were injured.

A powerful explosion this morning knocked down part of a five-storey building that houses military families in the largest city in south-east Turkey, authorities said.

Torrential rainfall in Turkey caused severe flooding across the country and was blamed for the deaths of at least eight people in the South-East, local authorities said today.

The death toll from a bombing in the Kurdish-majority south-eastern city of Diyarbakir rose to 10 this morning after three more people died from their injuries, the state-owned Anatolia news agency reported.

An explosion in the south-eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir tonight killed at least seven people and injured more than 10 others, local television station CNN-Turk said.

A BOY of six and two young men injured during clashes in the Kurdish-dominated south-east of Turkey have died in hospital, raising the death toll in three days of unrest to six.

Two people were injured in an explosion at the front of a British bank in south-eastern Turkey, a police official said today.

An explosion in front of a British bank injured two people in south-eastern Turkey, a police official said today.

A bomb set off by suspected Kurdish guerrillas killed three people and injured 18 others today in Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated south-east.

At least nine people were killed in Turkey today when an avalanche crashed down a mountain on to a road, burying a passenger bus, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Turkish doctors today scrambled to save the life of a five-year-old boy, one of 21 people infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, as laboratories tested samples from dozens more patients across Turkey to detect the virus.

The number of suspected bird flu cases in humans reached at least 32 in Turkey today, while the UN health agency confirmed at least two patients – a brother and sister who died – tested positive for bird flu.

A British laboratory has found that two Turkish teenagers who died earlier this week had bird flu, authorities said, and a health official in Geneva said scientists were closing in on identifying the virus as the deadly H5N1 strain.

Pilot error was blamed today for a Turkish jetliner crash last year that killed 75 people, including four Britons.

A top European Union official said today that the bloc’s upcoming decision on Turkey’s suitability for membership would take into account the series of reforms that the country has carried out.

TURKISH rescuers yesterday gave up searching for survivors of a devastating quake, saying only steel bunk beds had saved some boys' lives in a collapsed school dormitory that experts branded a flimsy death-trap.

AIR traffic controllers last night lost contact with a Tans Peru plane carrying 42 passengers plus four crew as it approached a small mountain airport in a northern Peruvian jungle.

A Turkish Airlines flight with 72 people on board has crashed as it tried to land at an airport in south east Turkey.

EIGHTY-NINE people were killed yesterday in two air crashes, one in Turkey and the second in the United States.