Syrian refugees across Turkey have jubilantly welcomed the downfall of Bashar Assad’s government with many embracing the chance to return to their homeland.

Workers and activists around the world are marking May Day with largely peaceful rallies against rising prices and calling for greater rights.

Local media in Turkey say one person was killed and seven injured when a cable car in the south of the country hit a pole and burst open, sending the passengers plummeting to the mountainside below.

Turkish state media say authorities have detained four people in connection with a massive landslide that engulfed a gold mine in eastern Turkey, leaving at least nine workers missing.

Nine workers are believed to be trapped underground after a huge landslide hit a gold mine in eastern Turkey.

Two people attacked Turkey's largest courthouse before being shot dead in an exchange of fire that also left one other person dead and five wounded.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul during Mass that killed one person.

Turkish officials say two masked assailants attacked a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul, killing one person.

The head of the Turkish Football Federation says domestic soccer league matches will resume on Dec. 19.

Turkish warplanes have carried out new airstrikes against suspected Kurdish militant sites in northern Iraq days after a suicide bomb attack in the Turkish capital.

Fierce rainstorms are battering neighboring Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, causing at least seven deaths.