Attackers killed three people today at a publishing house that had been the subject of protests for distributing Bibles in Turkey, the government-run Anatolia news agency reported.

Close to 7,000 people in the south-eastern Turkish town of Malatya needed hospital treatment in an outbreak of diarrhoea caused by drinking contaminated water, CNN-Turk television reported.

Syria today handed over 22 people suspected of involvement in Turkey’s quadruple suicide bombings, authorities said.

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.

Hundreds of small decorative balloons filled with hydrogen exploded in flames today before a political rally in Turkey, injuring 46 people.

The crew of Turkish military transport plane died today when it crashed while on a test flight following the crash of an identical plane three days ago.

The Turkish military suffered a major blow when 34 officers and soldiers from the elite Special Forces were killed in a plane crash - it was the military’s worst air disaster as well as the single biggest loss for Turkey’s Special Forces.

Thirty-seven Turkish special forces personnel have been killed as a military plane crashed in the south of the country.