Turkey yesterday asked its ambassador to Bangladesh to report home for consultations in the aftermath of the execution of Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, the Turkish state-run Anatolia news agency said.

Turkish envoy to Bangladesh leaves Dhaka amid media reports that he has been withdrawn in response to the execution of top war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami.

The Turkish minister for European Union affairs says he is losing hope of getting a deal on visa-free travel for Turks within Europe.

The European Commission is to grant Turkey conditional approval this Wednesday for visa-free travel within the EU's Schengen area, sources have told the BBC.

At least one person die and 13 are injured in a car bomb blast near a police headquarters in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, officials say.

Up to $800m (£550m) in cash held by so-called Islamic State (IS) has been destroyed in air strikes, a US military official says.

Last month's EU-Turkey deal on tackling the migrant flow has begun to produce results, a top EU official says.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, top EU officials are due to visit the Turkish-Syrian border to promote a controversial month-old migrant deal.

Pope Francis has taken 12 Syrian migrants back with him to the Vatican after visiting a camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.

At least 30,000 civilians have fled fighting between jihadists and rebels in northern Syria in the past 48 hours, Human Rights Watch says, calling on Turkey to open its border to them.

Syrian rebels seize control of the Islamic State group's main supply route to Turkey, a monitor says.

Greece begins a process of returning migrants to Turkey under an EU deal, despite fears over lack of preparation and criticism from campaigners.

Greek authorities are gearing up to send hundreds of failed asylum-seekers back to Turkey, which is racing to set up reception centres under a controversial EU deal.

There is growing concern over a lack of preparation for the plan to send migrants back from Greece to Turkey, two days before it goes into effect.

The suicide bomber who killed four people in Istanbul's main shopping street belonged to so-called Islamic State (IS), the interior minister says.

The agreement between the EU and Turkey to tackle the migrant crisis has formally come into effect.

A suicide bomb attack at a busy shopping area in the Turkish city of Istanbul has killed at least four people, officials say.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to bring terrorism "to its knees" after an attack in the capital Ankara that killed at least 34 people.

Germans are set to vote in three regional elections seen as a test of support for Chancellor Angela Merkel's policy towards refugees.

EU and Turkish leaders seek to turn into a lasting accord a plan on easing Europe's migrant crisis hailed as a game-changer by Ankara and Brussels but swiftly criticised by the UN's refugee chief.