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Thousands gather in front of the Turkish embassy in Baghdad, protesting against Turkey's military involvement in the offensive against Islamic State in Mosul.
A car bomb close to the Bab al Salama crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border killed at least 20 people on Thursday, according to witnesses.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announces first co-ordinated offensive into Syria against Islamic State and Kurdish militia on Wednesday.
Russian president Vladimir Putin says Moscow is ready to respond to "terror" threats from Syria, while officials say they have no information about reported Russian casualties in the country. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Images of Turkish fighter jets taking off from a military base in Diyarbakir to carry out strikes against positions and targets of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. According to a statement from the Ministry of Defence, "Turkey carried out air strikes this evening at 23:00 (20:00 GMT) in the regions of Tel Rifat, Cizire and Derik in northern Syria and destroyed 30 targets". Since Sunday evening, Ankara has been carrying out a campaign of drone bombings, which left at least nine people dead on Thursday, against PKK and YPG targets in Syria, in retaliation for the attack that wounded two policemen in Ankara on Sunday. IMAGES
United Nations humanitarian office spokesperson Jens Laerke tells a press conference in Geneva that that the initial emergency phase after the Turkey earthquake has ended. "Now we are involved in the humanitarian emergency phase, where we look at what the survivors need," he adds. SOUNDBITE
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