Women’s rights activists and female politicians have filed a legal complaint against Turkey’s deputy prime minister who said last week that women should not laugh aloud in public.

A Turkish fighter jet has shot down a Syrian military helicopter after it entered Turkish air space and ignored repeated warnings to leave, an official said.

Turkey’s deputy prime minister has offered an apology for a violent crackdown on an environmental protest, in a bid to appease days of anti-government rallies across the country as hundreds of riot police deployed around the prime minister’s office in the capital.

Turkish police detained 52 military commanders for allegedly planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the Islamic-oriented government.