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Protesters outside Istanbul's municipality headquarters calling for the release of Mayor Imamoglu

Protesters say Istanbul mayor arrest a blow to democracy

Protesters near Istanbul's main police headquarters have said the detention of President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival and the city's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was a blow to Turkish democracy.

World • 19 Mar

Shooting occurred at a Catholic church in Istanbul

One dead in gun attack on Italian church in Istanbul

One person has died in a gun attack on an Italian church in Istanbul during mass, Turkey's interior minister said.

World • 28 Jan 24

The plane split into three pieces after what has been described as a rough landing

One dead after Turkish plane skids off runway

One person has been killed and 157 injured when a plane carrying 177 people skidded off the runway at an Istanbul airport.

World • 05 Feb 20

Shop owners rushed to salvage what they could

Istanbul's Grand Bazaar flooded in torrential downpour

Turkey's mega city Istanbul was lashed by a heavy rainstorm, leaving many cars stranded in traffic and parts of the historic Grand Bazaar flooded.

World • 17 Aug 19

Ekrem Imamoglu said the re-run of the election was a 'treacherous decision'

Turkey election body orders Istanbul vote re-run

Turkey's top election body has ordered a re-run of Istanbul's mayoral election after the party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan complained about its shock defeat in the vote, the state news agency reported.

World • 06 May 19

The protest, organised by the KESK, a confederation of public service workers unions, drew people from all over Turkey

Thousands protest in Turkey against higher living costs

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Istanbul to demonstrate against the rising cost of living and crippling inflation in Turkey.

World • 22 Dec 18

Jamal Khashoggi after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul

Saudi delegation in Turkey for talks over journalist

Turkey and Saudi Arabia are at odds over a planned search by the Turkish authorities at the kingdom's Istanbul consulate where journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared last week, according to reports.

World • 12 Oct 18

Five people were detained in the operation, including three women

New Year nightclub attacker 'caught in Istanbul'

The gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day has been caught in the city's Esenyurt district, the Hurriyet newspaper website and other media reports said.

News • 16 Jan 17

Images of the alleged gunman who remains at large

Turkey says Istanbul nightclub attacker identified

Turkey has established the identity of the gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day, its foreign minister said this morning, as police detained suspected Islamic State members of Central Asian and North African origin.

News • 04 Jan 17

New images have emerged of the alleged gunman

Istanbul attacker may have trained in Syria

The gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day in an attack claimed by the so-called Islamic State militant group appears to have been well versed in guerrilla warfare and may have trained in Syria, a newspaper report and a security source said this afternoon.

News • 03 Jan 17

Police stand guard outside the scene of the attack

Arrests made as IS claims deadly Istanbul attack

The so-called Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the New Year's Day shooting in a packed Istanbul nightclub that left 39 people dead.

Istanbul • 02 Jan 17

The gunman was captured on video entering the Reina nightclub in Istanbul

Turkish police hunting gunman after club attack

Police in Istanbul have launched a manhunt for a gunman who killed at least 39 people, many of them foreigners, at a nightclub packed with New Year's revellers, in an attack officials described as a terrorist act.

News • 01 Jan 17

Police secure the area after an explosion at a football stadium in Istanbul

Car bomb and suicide bomber strike Istanbul

Twin blasts rocked Istanbul today, with a car bomb detonating at a football stadium as a suicide attacker struck a nearby park, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said.

News • 10 Dec 16

More than a million people attended the 'Democracy and Martyrs' rally in Istanbul today

Erdogan will back death penalty if it is voted in

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told a rally of more than a million people in Istanbul that he would approve the death penalty if parliament voted for it, following last month's failed coup.

News • 08 Aug 16

Three suspected IS suicide bombers killed 44 people in at Istanbul's main airport

Turkish police detain 11 more suspects over attack

Turkish police detained 11 foreigners suspected of being members of a cell of the so-called Islamic State linked to the suicide bombers who staged the attack this week at Istanbul's main airport.

News • 01 Jul 16

Bombers struck Turkey's busiest airport on Tuesday

Russian believed among Istanbul airport bombers

Three suicide bombers who killed 43 people in a gun and bomb attack at Istanbul's main airport this week were Russian, Uzbek and Kyrgyz nationals, a Turkish government official said.

News • 30 Jun 16

The attack was the deadliest in Turkey this year

IS suspected as Istanbul attack leaves 41 dead

Turkey has pointed the finger at the so-called Islamic State for a triple suicide bombing and gun attack that killed 41 people yesterday at Istanbul's main airport.

News • 29 Jun 16

The bomb targeted a bus carrying police officers

11 killed in Istanbul bomb attack

Eleven people, including seven police officers, have been killed in a bomb attack on a bus in central Istanbul.

News • 07 Jun 16

Michael D Higgins is also meeting leaders of the Irish relief agencies Concern, Trócaire and Goal at the summit

Higgins highlights issue of violence against women

President Michael D Higgins has issued a strongly-worded call to world leaders to tackle violence against women and girls, saying that just 0.5% of humanitarian funding is used to counter gender-based violence.

News • 24 May 16

Two women caught on camera, one with a gun and the other with a grenade

Two killed after Istanbul police station attack

Turkish police killed two women who threw grenades and opened fire at an Istanbul police station before taking cover inside a nearby building, Turkish media reports said.

News • 03 Mar 16

Ten German tourists were killed and another 17 people wounded in last Tuesday's attack

10 suspects charged over Istanbul bomb attack

A Turkish court has charged ten people over the suicide bombing in the heart of Istanbul's tourist district that killed ten Germans, media reported.

News • 18 Jan 16

A series of raids and arrests were carried out after the attack in Istanbul

Istanbul bomber entered Turkey as Syrian refugee

A suicide bomber with links to the so-called Islamic State group who killed 10 German tourists in the heart of Istanbul's historic district entered Turkey as a refugee from Syria and went undetected as he was not on any watch lists, according to Turkish Prime MinisterAhmet Davutoglu.

News • 13 Jan 16

Football player Emre Belozoglu (C) and head coach Ismail Kartal (R) inside the bus following the attack

Fenerbahce football team bus shot at in Turkey

A bus carrying Turkey's Fenerbahce football team back from their 5-1 victory over Black Sea side Rizespor came under fire, injuring the driver but leaving the players unhurt.

News • 05 Apr 15

File image of fishing boats on the Bosphorus in Istanbul

At least 24 drown as migrant boat sinks off Turkey

Rescuers pulled 24 bodies from the sea at the mouth of Istanbul's Bosphorus strait this morning and rescued seven people after the sinking of a boat carrying migrants including children, according to the Turkish Coastguard Command.

News • 03 Nov 14

Anti-government protesters chanted slogans and waved flags during a demonstration in Ankara

Dozens of protesters arrested in Turkey

A lone, silent vigil by a man in Istanbul inspired copycat protests today, as police detained dozens of people across Turkey.

News • 18 Jun 13