At least 39 people drowned on Thursday after a boat carrying illegal immigrants trying to reach Europe capsized in waters off western Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported, citing a local official

A car bomb exploded on Monday, killing eight people and wounding 50 others in a city in south-east Turkey, the mayor of Gaziantap, Asim Guezelbey, told local television.

The powerful blast went off c

Turkey's seismology center says a 5.3 magnitude earthquake has rattled the country's southeast, but authorities have reported no damage or injuries.

The Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory says the

Fighting between Turkish soldiers and outlawed Kurdish rebels killed 19 people near the Iraqi border in the southeast of the country on Sunday, the local governor said.

Six soldiers, two village guar

A Turkish boxing referee due to officiate at the Olympics has been found dead in his London hotel room after suffering a suspected heart attack, authorities said on Friday.

The Turkish Boxing Federat

Syrian rebels have accused strongman Bashar al-Assad of moving chemical weapons to the country's borders, after his beleaguered regime said it would use its stockpiles if attacked.

The accusation cam

Turkey sent batteries of ground-to-air missiles to the border with Syria on Sunday, media reports said, boosting its firepower as rebels in Syria seized several border posts.

As fighting raged in Dam

Turkey's prime minister vowed on Tuesday to retaliate against Syria for its 'heinous' downing of one of its warplanes, as the head of NATO said such an attack on one of its members was unacceptable.

Syrian foreign ministry spokesman Jihad al-Makdissi on Monday insisted that a Turkish F-4 Phantom jet its forces shot down on Friday had ‘violated Syrian sovereignty’.

"The Turkish warplane violated

Turkey has called for a NATO meeting over the Syrian downing of a Turkish fighter jet, a diplomatic source said on Sunday confirming a television news report.

Turkey called for the emergency meeting