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A plane carrying 177 people skidded off the runway at an Istanbul airport and split into three after landing in rough weather on Wednesday.Officials said no one had lost their lives in the accident, but dozens of people were injured.…

The death toll from the collapse of an Istanbul apartment block rose to 10 on Thursday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble, Turkish authorities said.The eight-storey building, which is located in the Kartal district on the Asian…

Four soldiers have died and another was wounded after a Turkish military helicopter crashed in central Istanbul. The helicopter was conducting training flights at Samandira air base in the city when it crashed in a residential part of…

The personal details of more than 150,000 members of dating website Muslim Match have been posted online.More than 700,000 private messages between members have also been leaked.A message on the site’s homepage said: “We have been…

THE three suicide bombers in the deadly gun and bomb attack on Istanbul's international airport were from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, a Turkish government official has said.The official gave no further details beyond confirming…

The death toll in a gun and suicide bomb attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk airport has risen to 41, 13 of them foreign nationals, with 239 injured, the Turkish city’s governor says.Three attackers arrived in a taxi and began firing at the…