Update 10.36am: A bomb attack on an outdoor wedding party in south-eastern Turkey that killed 50 people and wounded dozens of others was the work of the so-called ‘Islamic State’ group, the country's president said.

Hundreds of thousands of people ‘effectively under siege’

Irish people have been advised to exercise “a high degree of caution” if travelling to Turkey, as the US warned of credible threats in holiday locations.

The number of irregular crossings by migrants to Greece has dropped considerably, showing the Turkish-EU migrant deal is working, Turkey's prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.

Five Irish citizens — three of them children — have flown out of Turkey after being caught up in the Islamic State (IS) terror attack in Istanbul, which claimed four lives.

An Islamic State militant suspected of planning a suicide attack against the US Consulate in Istanbul has been arrested in Turkey.

Turkish soldiers killed four suspected Islamic State militants today and authorities detained 11 demonstrators a day before leaders of the G20 group of economic powerhouses meet for a summit overshadowed by the slaughter in Paris.

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.

IT WAS STILL snowing hard in Turkey -— Istanbul on the Bosphorus was trying to come to terms with the unexpectedly heavy fall. 

Islamic State fighters are poised to capture a strategic Syrian border town, Turkey’s president has warned, even as Kurdish forces battled to expel the extremists from their footholds on the outskirts.

Iraq’s government is urging all of its citizens living in Syria to return home immediately to escape being hurt or killed in the country’s escalating civil war.

Syrian forces fired across the border yesterday into a refugee camp in Turkey, wounding at least five people as a UN-brokered plan to end more than a year of violence this week all but collapsed, authorities said.

The bloody conflict in Syria spilled across two borders today, killing a cameraman in Lebanon and wounding at least five people in a refugee camp in Turkey as gunfire flew across the tense frontiers, authorities said.

A groom in Turkey has killed his father and two aunts after opening fire into the air with an automatic weapon to celebrate his wedding, according to reports.

A RUNAWAY schoolgirl yesterday said she would love her boyfriend forever after he was sent to jail for more than five years for statutory rape.

The Turkish military on Sunday began moving troops in western Turkey to its border with Iraq, strengthened its security force along the rugged border area ahead of a possible US war against Iraq.

A lovestruck 14-year-old who fled to Turkey to marry a 24-year-old barman she met while on holiday was expected back in Britain today.