A powerful bomb ripped through one of the Ankara's busiest commercial centres today, killing five people and injuring more than 50, the Turkish city's mayor said.

A homemade bomb left on a bicycle exploded at a market in the Aegean port city of Izmir today, injuring 15 people, the city’s governor said.

An explosion ripped through a storage tank at Turkey’s largest oil refinery in the country's north-west today, killing two South African workers, injuring seven other people and leaving 16 needing treatment for breathing problems.

An explosion ripped through a storage tank at Turkey’s largest oil refinery today, killing one person and injuring three others, private NTV television reported.

An explosion today at a coffee house in the Aegean port city of Izmir in Turkey left several people injured, private Dogan news agency reported.

The death toll from a bombing in the Kurdish-majority south-eastern city of Diyarbakir rose to 10 this morning after three more people died from their injuries, the state-owned Anatolia news agency reported.

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.

There was another blast in a Turkish resort city further along the coast today, local television reported.

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

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

An explosion today near a bus terminal in Istanbul, Turkey, has injured at least four people.

An explosion near a bus terminal in Istanbul has caused several injuries, according to the state-run Anatolia news agency in Turkey.

A bomb set off by suspected Kurdish guerrillas killed three people and injured 18 others today in Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated south-east.

A bomb set off by suspected Kurdish guerrillas killed three people and injured 14 others today in Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated south-east as militants intensified their fight for autonomy in the region.

An explosion injured several people today in Turkey’s Kurdish dominated south-east amid escalating attacks by autonomy-seeking Kurdish guerrillas, Turkish media reports said.

Two explosions have been reported in separate locations in Antalya, a resort city on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, and one person was injured, a local official said.