Turkish deputy says violent crackdown on protests 'wrong and unjust'

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.

Bulent Arinc, who is standing in for prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan while he is out of the country, said the crackdown was “wrong and unjust”.