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A disoriented brown bear cub was rescued in Turkey on Thursday, appearing to have been intoxicated after eating an excessive amount of "mad honey." Mad honey, or "deli bal" in Turkish, is a type of rhododendron honey that can have hallucinogenic effects, but the bear is expected to make a full recovery.

Saturday was a tragic day on Turkish roads. At least 32 died in multiple traffic accidents in two separate locations, where vehicles crashed into first responders following earlier accidents. We must warn you the following report contains footage some viewers may find disturbing.

Turkey has officially changed its name to Turkiye. Meanwhile, the United Nations has agreed to recognise the change while giving an approval on Thursday and said change will be immediate.

Turkey's parliament on Thursday approved a tough pre-election law that could see reporters and social media users jailed for up to three years for spreading "fake news". The new rules cement the government's already-firm grip on the media eight months before a general election that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan enters trailing in the polls.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lands in Bali, Indonesia, to attend the G20 summit, hours after his home city of Istanbul was rocked by an explosion that authorities blamed on Kurdish separatists.

Turkey is rebranding its internationally recognised name as Türkiye. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the new name “represents and expresses the culture, civilisation, and values of the Turkish nation in the best way”. But the change is about more than phonetic pronunciation.

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At least 41 people have been killed and 11 injured following a coal mine explosion in Turkey's northern Bartin province.

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has said his country would not impede the future export of grain through a deal mediated by the UN and Turkey with Ukraine, but that it reserves the right to withdraw if necessary.

An explosion on Istanbul’s popular pedestrian thoroughfare İstiklal Avenue has left at least six people dead and 53 others injured.

'Turkey launches AIRSTRIKES on Northern regions of Syria and Iraq after Istanbul explosion' Turkey launched airstrikes over northern regions of Syria and Iraq, the Turkish Defense Ministry said Sunday, targeting Kurdish groups that Ankara holds responsible for last week's bomb attack in Istanbul. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, reported that the strikes had also hit Syrian army positions and that at least 12 had been killed, including SDF and Syrian soldiers. The observatory said about 25 airstrikes were carried out by Turkish warplanes on sites in the countryside of Aleppo, Raqqa and Hasakah. The ministry cited Turkey's right to self defense under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter in launching an operation it called Claw-Sword late Saturday night. The Kurdish militant groups have, however, have denied involvement.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a terrorist bomb attack in Istanbul has killed at least six people and wounded more than 80.

Three people have been killed after rockets hit the Turkish district of Karkamis, near the Syrian border, according to the country’s interior minister. Five rockets were reportedly fired on Monday, one of them hitting a school, leaving six people injured, two of them seriously.

Turkish police released footage of a suspect being arrested on Monday after six people were killed in Istanbul's main shopping street on Sunday. Turkey has blamed Kurdish militants for the blast, saying police had detained 22 people, including the person who is suspected of planted the bomb.

Erdogan added that Turkey's air operations against a Kurdish militia in northern Syria were only the beginning and it would launch a land operation when convenient after an escalation in retaliatory strikes. Ankara launched air operations at the weekend in retaliation for an Istanbul bomb attack a week earlier that killed six people, and which it blamed on the YPG. Nobody has claimed responsibility and the PKK and YPG have denied involvement. Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said the army had hit 471 targets in Syria and Iraq since the weekend in what he said was Turkey's biggest air operation of recent times. The YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said the Turkish military attacked north and eastern Syria for a third day on Tuesday (November 22), using aircraft, drones and heavy artillery, with civilian infrastructure including hospitals and a school among the targets hit. The United States has allied with the SDF in the fight against Islamic State in Syria, causing a deep rift with Turkey. The Sun newspaper brings you the latest breaking news videos and explainers from the UK and around the world

A St. Petersburg woman was arrested on Thanksgiving Day after police say she endangered the lives of thousands of 5K runners.

Police arrested a St. Petersburg woman who allegedly drove her Range Rover onto the racecourse where the Coffee Pot Turkey Trot 5K was being held on Thanksgiving Day. Ashlee Morgan, 38, faces several charges, including fleeing and eluding law enforcement and resisting an officer, online jail records show.

Turkey's Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu blamed Kurdish militants on Monday for a blast that killed six people in Istanbul's main shopping street, and said police had detained 22 suspects (later updated to 46), including the person who had planted the bomb. Soylu said the order for the attack on Istanbul's Istiklal Avenue was given in Kobani, a city in northern Syria. Istanbul has been targeted in the past by Kurdish, Islamist and leftist militants. An offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) claimed twin bombings outside an Istanbul soccer stadium in December 2016 that killed 38 people and wounded 155. Ankara says the YPG, which Washington has supported in Syria, is a wing of the PKK. The PKK has led an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984 and more than 40,000 people have been killed in clashes. It is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States. Soylu also said on Monday that Turkey's alliance with the United States was in a "controversial situation" after the explosion. He added that Turkey "rejects" the condolences of the American embassy.

At least 68 people were injured, mostly while trying to flee homes. Footage released by Turkish private broadcaster TGRT shows how night-time anchorman Ersel Hoskara coninued presenting as the quake was felt in Istanbul while the graphic underneath him read 'Breaking news: moment of the earthquake live on air'. The earthquake was centered in the town of Golkaya, in Duzce province, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) east of Istanbul, the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency said.

Turkey has hit Syria with a barrage of retaliatory shelling - the aftermath of Istanbul bombing - in the form of airstrikes which targeted Kurdish forces controlling the northern Syrian Al-Hol detention camp. According to a British-based war monitoring body, the Turkish planes launched the airstrike on the exterior of the camp.

Kurdish Gen. Mazloum Abdi is among those calling on NATO to pressure Turkey to cease firing missiles on the Kurdistan region.