Syria said it shot down a Turkish military plane that entered Syrian air space, and Turkey vowed to 'determinedly take necessary steps' in response.

It was the most clear and dramatic escalation in

Turkey's president said on Saturday his country will take ‘necessary’, but unspecified, action against Syria, a day after Damascus said it had brought down a Turkish military plane that had entered its air space.

Inmates in a prison in southeast Turkey set beds and blankets alight, starting a fire that killed 13 prisoners, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other officials said on Sunday.

Erdogan said t

Officials says a quake with preliminary magnitude of 6.1 has shaken southwestern Turkey.

The Kandilli Observatory seismology centre says the quake's epicenter was off the coast of popular Aegean res

Thousands of demonstrators on Sunday staged the largest protest yet against plans by Turkey's Islamic-rooted government to curb abortion, which critics say will amount to a virtual ban.

Around 3,000

Iran wants crucial nuclear talks with world powers to take place in Baghdad instead of Istanbul as had been mooted, according to a statement from Iraq welcoming the proposal.

An 'Iranian delegation e

Puffing hard on a cigarette, the Syrian rebel relived the moment earlier this week when his band of fighters was caught in Syrian army crossfire as they tried to smuggle a wounded comrade over the hil

A Turkish military helicopter crashed onto a house on the outskirts of the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, killing at least 10 people, local police said.

"So far we have recovered 10 bodies, eight of

A Kurdish rebel group said on Friday that Turkey's air force carried out air strikes on border areas of north Iraq, but gave no details about casualties or damage.

"On March 8, between 6:00 pm (1500

A bomb exploded on Monday near the offices of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, lightly injuring one person, officials and media said.

The device, which was in a small plastic bo