Two ferries evacuating some 4,500 Chinese nationals from Libya are heading for the island of Crete, authorities say.

A Turkish court was today resuming the trial of a German teenager accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old British girl while they were both on holiday, his lawyer said.

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

After a rash of bombings, a Kurdish militant group has warned that it will turn Turkey "into hell", and urged tourists to avoid travelling to the country, in what appeared to be a trend in the Kurdish guerrilla war against the Turkish state – bombings against “soft targets”.

A hard-line Kurdish militant group today claimed responsibility for a bomb attack that killed three people in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya.

Police in Turkey have detained a suspected Kurdish rebel believed to be plotting a new bomb attack.

An explosion in the centre of one of Turkey’s most popular tourist resorts killed three people and injured at least 20 others today – less than a day after bomb attacks struck another tourist centre and an Istanbul neighbourhood.

The Department of Foreign Affairs is warning Irish holidaymakers of the on-going threat of bomb attacks in Turkey.

Ten British people were injured, one of them seriously, in a bomb blast on a bus at a popular Turkish holiday resort.

At least 22 people were injured tonight in three explosions at the holiday resort of Marmaris in Turkey.

A moderate earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck Turkey’s southern Aegean coast, sending residents into the streets in panic, the Anatolia news agency reported. At least one person was injured.

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.

A light aircraft carrying three tourists crashed in southern Turkey today. There was no word on casualties.

Greek and Turkish rescue crews worked together today to search for possible survivors from a boat filled with illegal immigrants that went down in the Mediterranean Sea.

Turkish rescue teams were searching for about 60 illegal immigrants missing in the Mediterranean today after their boat sank.

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.

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.