Turkey’s deputy prime minister has offered an apology in an effort to appease anti-government protesters, as they stormed the street for the fifth consecutive day.
Bulent Arinc, who is standing in for the prime minister, called the crackdown on protesters as “wrong and unjust”.
The apologies surface a day after the country’s ally, the United States, called on the Turkish forces to observe the rights of protesters,
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