Prime Minister Scott Morrison has summoned the Turkish ambassador to Parliament after Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan threatened any visitors with anti-Muslim views would leave in coffins
Turkey’s president warned anti-Muslim Australians would leave his country in coffins ‘like their grandfathers’ did after Gallipoli.called on New Zealand to restore the death penalty for the gunman who killed 50 people at two Christchurch mosques, warning that Turkey would make the attacker pay for his act if New Zealand did not.
"You heinously killed 50 of our siblings. You will pay for this. If New Zealand doesn't make you, we know how to make you pay one way or another," Mr Erdogan told an election rally of thousands in northern Turkey on Tuesday. Female Muslim worshipers grieve at a makeshift memorial at the Al Noor Mosque on Deans Rd in Christchurch, New Zealand.At weekend election rallies he showed video footage of the shootings which the gunman had broadcast on Facebook, as well as extracts from a"manifesto" posted by the attacker and later taken down.
"We had a long dialogue on the need for any other country, or Turkey for that matter, to ensure that our country, New Zealand, was not misrepresented," he told a press conference.Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has played parts of the alleged gunman's video as part of his rallies.
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