Mouhamad, a 40-year-old dentist and poet, lived in Aleppo, Syria, for many years.

The Kurdish militant group TAK says it carried out Sunday's deadly attack in the Turkish capital, Ankara in revenge for 'military operations in the mainly Kurdish south-east'.

Polling stations opened in eastern Turkey for one of the most crucial elections in years, as the deeply divided country confronts a bloody wave of jihadist attacks and a renewed Kurdish conflict.