Photo: Presidential Press Service via APTurkey's president has shown parts of a video of the terror attack on New Zealand mosques to comment on what he called rising Islamophobia. An Australian-born man is facing a murder charge after 50 people were shot dead and dozens more injured at two Christchurch mosques on Friday during prayers. The video, which was blurred but had clear sounds of automatic gunfire, was shown to thousands of people at the rallies and was aired live on Turkish television. He accused the Western world for not calling the attack on the two Christchurch mosques "Christian terror," when acts committed by Muslims are called "Islamic terror." Erdogan then shifted his rhetoric to slamming the main opposition's leader, as is common in all of his campaign rallies.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 18, 2019 21:45 UTC