Dozens of US, British and Turkish pilots are engaged in mock aerial battles above central Turkey indicating deepening cooperation between the allies.

Rescuers called off their search for survivors of a collapsed girls dormitory in central Turkey after they pulled the body of an 18th victim out of the debris, an official said today.

At least 17 girl students were killed and another 27 injured when their three-storey dormitory collapsed in central Turkey today.

A girl’s dormitory collapsed in central Turkey this morning, killing 11 students, officials said.

A Turkish court sentenced seven suspected al Qaida militants to life in prison for the deadly 2003 bombings in Istanbul.

A Turkish air force jet crashed right after take-off today, killing the pilot and two other soldiers on the ground at a central Anatolian air base, the military announced.

NATO will deploy AWACS early warning aircraft to enforce a no-fly zone over Istanbul during the alliance’s summit in the Turkish city later this month.

A court in central Turkey has ordered the arrest of nine Turks believed to have received training at al-Qaida camps abroad.

Surrounded by the stench of decaying bodies, Yasemin Yaprakci scraped her fingernails against the shattered concrete of her collapsed apartment building today, hoping to alert rescuers that she was buried under the pulverised wreckage.

A 23-year-old woman was found alive in the rubble of an apartment building in central Turkey today, seven days after the building collapsed, private NTV television reported.

Rescue workers today dug out five more bodies from the wreckage of a collapsed apartment building in Turkey – raising the death toll to 51.

As hopes dimmed of finding more survivors in the debris of a collapsed apartment building in central Turkey, rescue workers pulled out two more bodies today, raising the death toll to 40.

At least four people died and dozens more were trapped when an 11-storey apartment building in central Turkey collapsed into a heap of twisted metal and chunks of concrete, rescuers and officials said.

A high-rise apartment block in central Turkey collapsed into a heap of twisted metal and chunks of concrete today, killing at least one person and trapping dozens more, rescuers said.

Turkish police have detained a man with alleged ties to al-Qaida and have seized enough chemical fertiliser to fill five truck bombs similar to those used in the Istanbul suicide bombings last month.

Twelve people were killed and at least 50 others injured today when a lorry collided with a bus in a central Turkey, an official said.

Turkish police have detained 224 illegal migrants on their way to Western Europe, a news agency reported.

35 people are now known to have died in an earthquake in central Turkey.

At least 17 people are dead after an earthquake in central Turkey.