Joe Thornley, who weighed 22st, booked an appointment for the procedure at Medicana Bahcelievler in Istanbul just weeks before it was due to take place.

Trump said Wednesday that the ceasefire his administration negotiated last week on the Turkish-Syrian border is intact, even as more blood is spilled in northern Syria.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reportedly taken legal action against French magazine Le Point which branded him 'The Eradicator'.

President Donald Trump stood alongside Recep Tayyip Erdogan and listened during a joint press conference in the East Room as he described returning the letter.

Dramatic video captured the final moments of a Syrian government helicopter after it was hit by missiles fired by Turkey-backed rebels in Syria's Idlib province on Tuesday.

Three-year-old Syrian girl Salwa has safely reached Turkey, it has emerged. Her father came up with a game to make his daughter laugh every time bombs fell near their home in Idlib,

Customers from Tesco, Aldi and Morrisons were left disappointed with their Christmas dinners after claiming that poultry they bought was mouldy and rancid.

The ISIS European head of operations that planned the massacres in Paris and Brussels has fled the terror group from Syria taking secrets with him, according to an ISIS-infiltrator.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Turkey and its rebel allies had launched a large ground offensive against three villages today and forces thousands of civilians to flee.

The Hollywood movie star shared video of the incident to his Instagram on Thursday, in which he's hear honking his horn at the bird that is refusing to budge.

President Erdogan said today that a suspected American jihadist trapped in the no-man's land between the Turkish and Greek borders was 'not our problem'. The man has been deported by Turkey.

Turkish interior minister, Suleyman Soylu, announced the number of crossings in a statement on Twitter. Migrants have been spotted wading through a river and arriving in Greece on boats.

Turkey shot down two Syrian army planes and rendered its Nayrab airbase, outside Aleppo, unusable in attacks today that escalated tensions between Ankara and Damascus.

Ursula von der Leyen said the EU would provide 'all the support needed' to defend the 'Greek external border, which is also the European border'.

This young man said he had walked for several hours through Greece before police 'took everything from us - including all our money, clothes and phones' and started to beat them.

President Erdogan said today he wouldn't stop migrants trying to cross into Greece before advising Athens to allow them to pass through, as they are aiming to go further into Europe.

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Turkey football legend Hakan Sukur has opened up on the bizarre path his life has taken since retiring from the sport, taking him from a political 'exile' to running a cafe and driving for Uber in the USA.

Thousands of mourners have taken part in prayers at mosques across Turkey for Mohamed Morsi, a close ally of President Erdogan during his short rule, a day after he died while standing trial.

A Turkish reporter started off her question to Donald Trump by bashing Barack Obama and the president questioned whether the foreign journalist was actually employed by Turkey.

British Fed Cup star Katie Boulter looks finally ready to resume her career after nearly six months spent battling injury.

She practically stole the show in one of this year's Best Picture nominees, and already has her own verified Instagram account at only 10 years old.

Lady Gaga dropped her first solo single and video in nearly three years, Stupid Love, at midnight on Friday, in a return to her eighties electro-dance pop glory.

Hillary Clinton trolled Donald Trump's letter to Turkey's president Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday by sharing a spoof letter from JFK to the leader of the Soviet Union to end the Cuban missile crisis.

Iraq, Pakistan, Armenia, Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Armenia and Kuwait have imposed bans against people travelling from Iran amid coronavirus fears.

The shipment was announced by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick on April 18, with the minster claiming that 84 tonnes of PPE would arrive from Turkey the next day.

Interior minister Suleyman Soylu warned the nation 'is not a hotel' for captured terrorists and said it will repatriate any they capture while in Syria' in a televised address from Ankara on Saturday.

Interior minister Suleyman Soylu (pictured), who has warned that Ankara will send jihadists back home even if they have lost their citizenship in the West, vowed that extraditions would begin on Monday.

The government of Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan (pictured) has frequently criticised Western countries for refusing to take back their ISIS fighters.

French national Tooba Gondal, 25, is among four women and seven children being transported from Turkey to France in line with Ankara's plan to expel foreign fighters from Turkish prisons.

Turkey on Thursday announced it will deport an American IS fighter back to the US after he was stuck in a border buffer zone between Greece and Turkey for days.

One aide to a senior official in the Oval Office meeting said Erdogan's footage 'looked like an ISIS propaganda film made by the guys from South Park.'

The Australians are among 959 foreign IS fighters and families in Turkish custody in northern Syria.

Lieutenant General Saad al-Allaq said nine senior members of Islamic State, among them financiers and 'the best bomb makers that ISIS ever had,' were trying to orchestrate carnage from Turkey.

While Group A, B and C may be taking shape, attention turns to Group D and E on Friday. Italy stormed to a 2-0 victory over Belgium and will want more success against Sweden.

Fatih Terim offered an emotional defence of his contribution to Turkish football on the eve of Tuesday night's game against the Czech Republic.

Sportsmail's Martin Keown offers his assessment of Tuesday's two late games at Euro 2016 as Spain face Croatia in Bordeaux and Czech Republic try to reach the last 16 with victory over Turkey.

Czech Republic go into the game with a point from their two matches, while Turkey have none - but both can still qualify for the last-16 stage.

Turkey’s teenage star Emre Mor helped keep his country’s last-16 hopes alive and also sent Northern Ireland into delirium, as Turkey beat Czech Republic 2-0.

It came as Erdogan jetted into Brussels for a high-level meeting aimed at shoring up the 2016 migrant deal, where the EU agreed to hand over €6bn in exchange for migrants being held back.

Laurence Fox visited the Barberyn retreat in Beruwala, on Sri Lanka's west coast, to undergo a 'no-frills detox'. He met with an Ayurvedic doctor and enjoyed beach walks and restorative massages.

The Daily Mail's Tom Chesshyre picks a selection of the best travel-related entertainment for the week ahead that will transport you to Istanbul, Mumbai and beyond.

The 29-year old is a free agent after leaving Liverpool at the end of last season and has interest from around the globe. Fenerbahce are willing to offer a three year contract worth £60,000 a week. 

The Champions League winners take on the Europa League victors at Vodfaone Park in Istanbul with Jurgen Klopp looking to get his hands on a second trophy with the club.

Steven Caulker has the ability - no question - but the former Liverpool and Tottenham player has seen his career take unexpected twists and turns which now sees him stationed out in Turkey.

Liverpool sent scouts to check in on Cakir as they look to find a long-term second choice goalkeeper. The 23-year-old made eight saves to thwart Fenerbache as the sides drew 1-1 on Sunday.

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Former Turkey goalkeeper Rustu Recber is in a 'critical period' in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus. The former Fenerbahce, Besiktas and Barcelona player was rushed in this weekend.

Customers are raging on social media that supermarkets across the UK are failing to deliver key festive ingredients, sparking fears online that they are running out of items.