Kurdish rebels have detonated a car bomb in south-east Turkey, killing an 11-year-old child and wounding 18 other people.

A military helicopter has crashed in south-east Turkey where troops are fighting Kurdish rebels, killing three soldiers on board. Four other soldiers were injured.

Nato’s governing body will meet tomorrow to discuss the Syrian downing of a Turkish plane.

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

Kurdish rebels detonated a roadside bomb in Turkey today as two minibuses carrying army personnel passed, injuring 12 soldiers, reports claim.

THE Pentagon said yesterday it is working with Turkey to resolve a “serious problem” posed by the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party, but declined to comment on a media report of secret plans to stop rebel violence.

A parked car bomb struck an open-air market north-east of Baghdad today, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than two dozen, police said.

TURKEY’S top general yesterday said the military was ready to stage a cross-border offensive to fight Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq and that he already had sought government approval to mount military action.

The Iranian government has hit back at an accusation by US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice that it has inflamed violent protests over caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad and demanded an apology.

A bomb blast in a parked car in south-east Turkey today killed two soldiers and injured one civilian, an official said.

Kurdish rebels are believed to have kidnapped the mayor of Yayladere in south-east Turkey’s Bingol province, relatives and officials from the mayor’s office said today.

Today's powerful earthquake in Turkey killed up to 150 people and injured 390 others.

Turkey’s top military and political leaders today met to discuss Kurdish moves in two key cities in northern Iraq.

A Turkish Airlines with 71 on board has crashed in south-east Turkey on an internal flight from Istanbul, CNN reported.