THE LATEST TURKEY NEWS FROM MAILONLINE

Two of the Istanbul terrorists 'had Russian passports' and were planning to take 'dozens' of hostages during airport massacre 

02/07/16 01:40

02/07/16 01:24

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the terminal building at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport to create chaos. The tactics used suggest ISIS was responsible and not Kurdish separatists.

01/07/16 20:16

Ahmet Berker - pictured here in these poignant photographs for the first time - was shot three times by the ISIS extremist after asking to see his ID at Ataturk Airport on Tuesday evening.

01/07/16 19:22

It has been revealed that between 5,000 and 7,000 people from Russia and other former Soviet states have travelled to Iraq and Syria to join ISIS, with many coming the volatile North Caucasus region.

30/06/16 23:24

ISIS has released a graphic claiming to show their global influence  where it says it has operatives just hours after a devastating terror attack in Istanbul, Turkey left 42 dead.

30/06/16 22:34

The CCTV footage, filmed from behind the counter of an Ataturk Airport shop, shows holidaymakers starting to flee after a commotion breaks out at the entrance to the terminal.

30/06/16 19:30

Security services swooped on addresses thought to be ISIS cells in Istanbul and in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir, just a day after 42 people were killed in a triple suicide bombing at Ataturk airport.

30/06/16 19:30

The embattled agency has faced mounting criticism over  huge waiting times in terminal buildings across the country. But the attack in Istanbul that left 42 dead means airport checks could increase.

30/06/16 19:15

Akhmed Chataev is said to be the brains behind the attack after three suicide bombers launched a co-ordinated assault on Ataturk Airport in Istanbul on Tuesday, according to Turkish media.

30/06/16 19:06

Tunisia military doctor Brigadier General Fathi Bayoudh, was among the 41 people who died when three suspected ISIS bombers blew themselves up at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul.

30/06/16 18:29

Text messages between the officer and his colleague reveal how he spotted the man wearing inappropriate summer clothing at Ataturk Airport, before deciding to investigate.

30/06/16 18:19

A U.S.-led coalition aircraft waged a series of deadly strikes against Islamic State around the city of Fallujah in Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 250 ISIS fighters.

30/06/16 17:26

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Footage shows an undercover officer approach a man walking through Ataturk airport in Istanbul airport before collapsing to the floor in agony.

30/06/16 08:09

Tragic stories of the lives cut short by three suicide bombers at Istanbul airport are beginning to emerge. Among those who died were five Saudis, two Iraqis, one Tunisian and a Chinese national.

30/06/16 08:05

The 70-year-old multi-talented star apologized for her 'insensitively timed' symbols to decorate her tweet in order to honour those who lost their lives after her original post on Tuesday

30/06/16 02:17

Details of the sequence events have become clear 24 hours after the attack at Istanbul's Ataturk airport which killed 42 people and injured 238. The Turkish government believes ISIS was responsible.

30/06/16 01:54

British holidaymakers in Turkey could be targeted by terrorists following the devastating attack on the country’s busiest airport, officials warn. They say further attacks on tourists are likely.

30/06/16 00:56

The officer - named as Yasin Durna by local media - was seen risking his own life by confronting the terrorist as he chased innocent passengers through the Istanbul airport on Tuesday evening.

29/06/16 19:57

Donald Trump has responded to the deadly terrorist attack in Istanbul, Turkey, asking if the 'world will ever realize what is going on?' and calling on the USA to protect itself.

29/06/16 19:48

Hundreds of passengers were evacuated from Terminal 5 at New York's JFK Airport at around 8.30am after bomb squad officers and K-9 units were called to reports of a suspicious package.

29/06/16 14:43

Steven Nabil and his wife were returning to New York City via Istanbul's Ataturk Airport when three suicide bombers launched a 'major, co-ordinated' attack.

29/06/16 14:24

Three suicide bombers have left dozens dead and wounded more than 140 people in a 'major, co-ordinated' attack at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport. The death toll is expected to rise to 50 people.

29/06/16 14:04

The Secretary Of State spoke about the Istanbul attack Tuesday while in Aspen, Colorado. No one had claimed responsibility but early signs pointed to ISIS, the Turkish Prime Minister said.

29/06/16 04:29

The Australian embassy in Turkey is desperately trying to establish if any Australian tourists have been killed in the terrorist attack at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport on Wednesday.

29/06/16 01:24

CCTV footage has caught the moment when a police officer guns down a suicide bomber who then blows himself up. Two bombers hit Istanbul's Ataturk airport, killing at least 28 people.

28/06/16 19:09

These are the amazing scenes as thousands of flamingo chicks emerged from their nests at Salt Lake, which is home to the biggest colony of the birds in Turkey.

28/06/16 17:33

Hamdi Alqudsi is accused of arrangin the men's travel in 2013 and allegedly told them it did not matter what a taxi to the Syrian border with Turkey cost so long as they were 'safe'.

28/06/16 14:46

Turkish prime minister Binali Yildrim says his country will not pay any compensation to the Kremlin after the country shot down a Russian fighter jet over the Syrian border last year.

27/06/16 20:25

The Turkish foreign ministry had slammed the Pontiff after he called on the world to 'defeat evil with good' as he paid his respects to the Armenians slaughtered by the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

25/06/16 11:32

Turkey accidentally shutdown access to YouTube and popular Google services such as Gmail when it tried to censor the Internet this month.

22/06/16 02:03

It is alleged the men were planning to attack Istanbul's Trans Pride march, which was held last Sunday, despite being banned by the Turkish government.

19/06/16 08:33

Live stream footage captured the men yelling: 'I'm going to kill you, close this place down, I'll burn this place with you inside,' at Velvet IndieGround Records store in Istanbul on Friday.

18/06/16 12:49

More and more women are using their maternity leave to take their baby on adventures around the world. From Turkey to Thailand, MailOnline Travel rounds up the ultimate mummy-moons.

17/06/16 18:01

The authorities in Istanbul, have banned a gay pride march planned for later this month after threats were made by extremists. Turkey has suffered a series of bombings in recent months.

17/06/16 16:35

The charity has refused to receive funding from the bloc while simultaneously treating its victims, slamming the Turkey-EU deal which is says forced thousands of people to be stranded in Greece.

17/06/16 09:39

The guitarist is currently being treated in Antalya, after performing with the band at Expo 2016, and is said to be in a serious but stable condition.

17/06/16 00:44

The football fan, who has been identified as Izzet Salti, was attempting to watch his country Turkey play Croatia in the Euros when his wife began turning off the TV at crucial moments.

15/06/16 02:24

During talks in Brussels, UK diplomats initially resisted allowing the country to open a new phase in its negotiations with the EU. But within only a few hours, Britain backed down.

13/06/16 13:19

Yeni Akit, a Turkish newspaper which has supported the likes of Al-Qaeda in the past and has ties with President Erdogan, broke news of the Orlando attack by calling victims 'perverts'.

12/06/16 18:30

Diplomats advised ministers that the EU's plan to grant visa-free travel to 75m Turks in the Schengen zone could lead to the UK giving the same status to 1.5m 'special passport holders'.

11/06/16 05:27

Turkey's President has cut short his trip to the US and will not attend the funeral of boxer Muhammad Ali, his office said Friday, amid reports of a rift with the ceremony's organizers.

10/06/16 09:22

MailOnline visited a factory in Turkey staffed by children as young as nine who make uniforms that the owner boasts are used by Isis.

09/06/16 07:07

Michael Gove warned voters that Turkey was in-line to join the EU – and that, unless Britain votes to Leave, 77million Turkish citizens could receive free access to the UK and its public services.

08/06/16 18:04

Gülay Erdem, a 16-year-old teenager from Turkey died after falling from an apartment balcony, apparently while sleepwalking.

07/06/16 14:53

The blast targeted a service shuttle bus carrying officers from Istanbul's anti-riot police as it was passing through the central Beyazit district killing seven officers and three civilians.

07/06/16 08:02

Research from Johannes Gutenberg University suggests that the move away from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and towards farming, came with people migrating into Europe from the east.

06/06/16 15:50

The giant plane, with a wingspan of 144 feet and a length of 177 feet, was put to the bottom of the sea on Saturday afternoon off the popular resort of Kusadasi in Aydin province.

06/06/16 09:59

Recep Tayyip Erdogan branded childless women 'deficient' during a speech in Istanbul, Turkey, saying he 'absolutely doesn't accept' a woman choosing a career over having children.

05/06/16 01:17

In startling footage a military truck explodes into a black cloud laying bare the horrors of the Kurdish-Turkish conflict in the southeast of the country where PKK rebels are fighting the state.

04/06/16 08:42

More than 340 migrants were rescued off the Greek island of Crete yesterday amid growing fears that traffickers are opening up more dangerous routes to Europe.

03/06/16 18:41

The 46-year-old arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos after the EU reached an agreement to send some failed asylum seekers back to Turkey in a bid to stem the bloc's worst ever migrant crisis.

02/06/16 22:39

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned the resolution 'will seriously affect relations' between Berlin and Turkey as Ankara recalled it envoy to Germany for talks.

02/06/16 18:25

Marion Lamond, 53, from Scotland, mistakenly picked up husband Derek's passport but managed to pass through two lots of airport security checkpoints before anyone noticed the error.

01/06/16 13:52

Men are encouraged to mate with multiple wives and Turkish women are reminded their first role is popping out eggs like a battery hen serviced by a shared cock, writes KATIE HOPKINS.

31/05/16 22:28

Featuring 860 personnel from eight countries, the drills saw military jets, landing ships, drones, howitzers and tanks combine to form a display of military power on the Turkish coast.

31/05/16 12:16

It is the first time migrants have been picked up trying to cross to Italy by boat since the Greek land border with Macedonia was closed in March.

27/05/16 16:05

Amarna Carthy, from Nottinghamshire, was riding the vehicle in Fethiye, Turkey with cousin Jakadi Clarke, 21, when they plunged into a ditch, killing Ms Carthy instantly on Monday.

24/05/16 16:44

Turkey has been accused of sending on to Europe many 'serious medical cases' among Syrian refugees but excluding the most qualified. A Turkish official said they had the right to 'choose'.

24/05/16 10:29

Two pilots have revealed that hey saw an object with green lights pass by their passenger jet as they approached Istanbul's Ataturk Airport from Bodrum, an hour before the Egyptair jet crashed.

23/05/16 18:10

The James Bond star made an impassioned plea to more than 60 heads of state in Istanbul in a speech that also begged for more to be done to help those injured by land mines.

23/05/16 02:29

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office said Ahmet Davutoglu (pictured) quit hours after the ruling party confirmed Binali Yildirim as its new chairman at a party convention.

22/05/16 18:47

Penny Mordaunt (pictured) said thousands of criminals could flood to the UK when Turkey, Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and Macedonia join the EU but David Cameron hit back, saying she was 'wrong'.

19/05/16 13:54

Boris Johnson (right) won the Spectator magazine's competition to find the ‘offensive and defamatory’ poem about Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) a German comedian was prosecuted for mocking him.

19/05/16 10:00

Despite his connections to fundamentalist Islam, 'Recep U' was allowed to work in secure areas of Tegel and Schönefeld airports until October 2015, when he was caught with a knuckleduster.

18/05/16 12:18

German comedian Jan Boehmermann recited a poem on television in March suggesting Turkey's president Tayyip Erdogan engaged in bestiality and watched child pornography.

18/05/16 08:50

Turkey's International Modest Fashion Week kicked off on May 13 with the country's influencers flocking to view haute couture collections aimed at the country's conservative Muslim elite.

17/05/16 12:59

The man, a 27-year-old cleaner named only as 'E.E.', reportedly attacked at least 30 boys between eight and 12 for more than three months unimpeded at Nizip Refugee Camp in Antep, Turkey.

17/05/16 08:08

Statistics released by Greek authorities show fewer than 400 have been sent back to Turkey - because Athens deems the vast majority as being deserving of asylum.

17/05/16 07:24

Terrorists and criminals will seek to exploit the scheme by trying to obtain Turkish passports ‘as soon as’ the visa waiver programme comes into force, according to the European Commission.

13/05/16 19:43

Jeffrey and Nikki Williams, from Wales, booked a luxury trip to the all-inclusive Holiday Village resort in Sarigerme, Turkey with their daughter Lily, who was 10 months old at the time.

12/05/16 22:15

The man, named only as E.E., was able to take advantage of at least 30 boys between eight and 12 for more than three months unimpeded at Nizip Refugee Camp in Antep, Turkey (pictured).

12/05/16 17:06

The four men had attempted to make the four-mile swim from the island of Chios in the Aegean Sea, back to the Turkish coast, but had to be picked up by the Greek coast guard.

12/05/16 11:51

A video, shared by the father himself, shows him teaching his young son how to shoot a handgun in Korfez, a town in the north-western region of Marmara in Turkey.

10/05/16 16:54

At least five Syrian refugees have been killed by Turkish border guards - including one child - and 14 people have been seriously injured over the past two months, Human Rights Watch reports.

10/05/16 12:36

The family of a father-of-two who went missing in Turkey after a night out have been left with an agonising wait after reports emerged that a body had been found. Troy Ross vanished in Fethiye.

08/05/16 16:45

Adele Olcer, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, saw her daughter Zara, five, fall backwards out of a double rubber ring on a high-speed slide in Turkey.

06/05/16 21:50

The gunman fired several times before being detained by police outside a courthouse where Can Dundar, the editor-in-chief of leading Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, is on trial for treason.

04/05/16 08:07

The EU will be unable to fully track the 127 million people from Turkey, Ukraine, Kosovo and Georgia travelling to Europe because not all countries have a computerised visa system.

03/05/16 19:51

A German comedian under investigation by prosecutors for mocking Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused Chancellor Angela Merkel of 'filleting' him and serving him to a despot for tea.

03/05/16 12:26

The ancient tablet was discovered in Konya, Turkey as part of a monument to Roman jockey Lukuyanus. It outlines the rules of horse racing at the time.

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