Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The presidents met on the sidelines of the G20 summit on Saturday.

Bread and drinkable water are in short supply in the once-thriving town.

The coordinated operation comes four days after a suicide bomber killed 54 people at a wedding in Gaziantep.

The prime minister said earlier information on the perpetrator 'is unfortunately not right.'

Turkish President Recep Erdogan said Islamic State was probably behind the attack.

The massacre in Gaziantep is believed to have been caused by a child suicide bomber.

Adverts appear after Sweden accuses Ankara of legalising sex with children in court ruling.

Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag announced the release of 38,000 prisoners on social media.

A Washington think-tank has said amid growing security instability in Turkey that US nukes may be at risk.

Relations between the countries broke down after a Russian jet was shot down by the Turkish Air Force on the Syrian border in November.

Turkish intelligence cracked the encryption of the application earlier this year.

The Turkish president specifically targeted Germany after a court did not allow him to speak to supporters in Cologne.

'Warplanes, helicopters, weapons, bombs, buildings: 300 billion lira,' said trade minister Bulent Tufenkci.

The visa requirement was originally to be lifted in July.

Tens of thousands of Erdogan supporters expected to join rally on the streets of Cologne

As part of the reforms, chiefs of armed forces and intelligence will directly report to the president.

Not a single person from either the European Union or the west had come to give condolences, he complained.

Turkey accuses schools linked to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen of promoting terrorism.

Three news agencies, 16 TV channels, 45 papers and 15 magazines are due to shut.

Turkey's Supreme Military Council set to convene for the first time since the failed coup attempt.

Gulen – who lives in the US – denies any involvement in the attempted military coup in Turkey.

Amnesty International blasts Erdogan as detention without charge increases to 30 days

Threats included burning down a mosque and texts signed 'angel of death'.

Under state of emergency rights can be curtailed and parliament bypassed.

Government defends state of emergency by comparing it to Hollande's actions after attacks in France.

The plan was announced soon after the Religious Affairs Directorate stated they would not perform religious funeral rites for the plotters.

Erdogan thanks citizens who stood in way of tanks and mourns those who died defending state.

More than 50,000 officials have been rounded up after failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Wikileaks published 300,000 emails from AKP partly due to the 'government's post-coup purges'.

President Erdogan says he may reintroduce the death penalty 'if people demand it'