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AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER Scott Morrison condemned the “reckless” and “highly offensive” comments made by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the wake of the Christchurch massacre.
Morrison has warned that he would consider “all options” in reviewing ties between the two countries.
On the campaign trail, the Turkish leader has used video footage of the terror attack that killed 50 people and painted it as part of an assault on Turkey and Islam.
He has also warned anti-Muslim Australians – like the suspected gunman – would be “sent back in coffins” like their grandfathers at Gallipoli, which was the scene of a blood-drenched WWI battle.
More than 8,000 Australians died fighting Turkish forces around the seaside town, a landmark moment in Australian history.
“Remarks have been made by the Turkish President Erdogan that I consider highly offensive to Australians and highly reckless in this very sensitive environment,” Morrison said after summoning the Turkish ambassador and dismissing the “excuses” offered.
“I am expecting, and I have asked, for these comments to be clarified, to be withdrawn,” said Morrison, who also faces an election challenge in the coming weeks.
I’ve asked for these comments, particularly their reporting of the misrepresented position of Australia on Turkish television, the state-sponsored broadcaster, to be taken down and I expect that to occur.
He described claims about Australia and New Zealand’s response to the white supremacist attack as “vile”.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern refused to be drawn on Erdogan’s comments, but said her deputy would be going to Turkey to “set the record straight”.
Morrison said Australians travelling to Turkey should exercise common sense and cautioned that travel advice for Turkey was under review.
“I will wait to see what the response is from the Turkish government before taking further action, but I can tell you that all options are on the table,” Morrison said.
In fiery remarks, Morrison accused Erdogan of betraying the promise of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk – the father of the modern state and a revered figure in Turkey – to forge peace between the two countries.
A memorial at the battlefield carries Ataturk’s words:
There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets… after having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.
“Ataturk sought to transform his country into a modern nation and, an embracing nation, and I think these comments are at odds with that spirit,” Morrison said.
‘Totally unfair’
Erdogan had already been sharply rebuked by New Zealand for his comments and for using gruesome video shot by the Christchurch mosque gunman as an election campaign prop.
New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters protested on Monday that such politicisation of the massacre “imperils the future and safety of the New Zealand people and our people abroad, and it’s totally unfair”.
Peters announced yesterday that he would be travelling to Turkey this week at Istanbul’s request to attend a special meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Three Turkish nationals were wounded in the rampage that killed 50 worshippers at two mosques in the southern New Zealand city of Christchurch last Friday.
The accused gunman, a self-avowed white supremacist from Australia, live-streamed much of the attack and spread a manifesto on social media claiming it was a strike against Muslim “invaders”.
The manifesto references Turkey and the minarets of Istanbul’s famed Hagia Sophia, now a museum, that was once a church before becoming a mosque during the Ottoman empire.
“This is not an isolated event, it is something more organised,” Erdogan said during a campaign event on Monday in Canakkale in western Turkey.
They are testing us with the message they are sending us from New Zealand, 16,500 km (10,250 miles) from here.
Erdogan did not project the video at the Monday event.
Peters said he had complained directly to visiting Turkish Vice-President Fuat Oktay and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
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He still made more sense than most of the politicians that appear on Newstalk
Féach : http://youtu.be/luKsQaj0hzs Tá na drugaí “dlithiúla” síciatracha i bhfad Éireann níos contúirtí ach cuireann Big Pharma an dallamúllóg ar dhaoine. B’fhearr liom fhéin na muisirúin mire ;)
An bhfuil tú i do theoiricí chomchealg?
Ní féidir aragóint leis na figiúirí. Agus ó mo thaithí féin ag obair ins an réimse seo feicim chuile lá é. Is scanall mór amach is amach é. Á
dh mór : )
I will think of these guys, who contributed to funding organised crime by purchasing these drugs, the next time someone is shot dead by drug dealers due to mistaken identity.
JAKE will you think of ther successive governments that force them to deal with drug dealers and who will use the full powers of the State to insure that they do ?
Do you work in party politics or justice or pharmaceuticals or do you bank with h.s.b.c ?- all of these are th main monetary beneficiaries of the current laws ?
You have a choice. You don’t have to hand over money to drug dealers and if you do YOU are complicit.
No I don’t – I need my medicine and only drug dealers supply it .
That is a choice of government and not me .
Al Capone wore impeccable suits by all accounts !
Jake, given that raping your wife was legal in this country till 1990, and homosexuality was illegal until 1993, aligning your moral compass with legality alone might not be the best course of action. Drug dealers depend on illegality, so maybe we should try letting grown up people decide what they want to do with their own bodies for a change, and see how many people drug dealers shoot dead by mistake.
“Jake, given that raping your wife was legal in this country till 1990, and homosexuality was illegal until 1993, aligning your moral compass with legality alone might not be the best course of action”
Wow, what a dumb arse. Do you realise you could use the same (fallacious) argument against someone who suggests murder is a bad thing?
I wonder if anyone else here can name this logical fallacy.
Here is a hint. The dialectical prestidigitation subsists in the fact that my argument had nothing to do with deriving morality from legislation and the fact that my position aligns somewhat with the law on this occasion is inconsequential to the argument.
It’s not a logical fallacy at all – I’m saying that morality should be the basis for legislation,and not the reverse (which seemed to be implied by your comments. Apologies if that wasn’t the case.) But you are conveniently ignoring a possible initial immoral act (prohibition), to focus instead on a consequent immoral act. The government have a choice too, which would in fact prevent both acts. I’ll refrain from name calling, but that’s a fairly embarrassing miscomprehension, so I hope it was intentional.
And just as a sidenote: when you say things like “dialectical prestidigitation subsists” you really, really sound like someone who doesn’t know his subject matter, so instead resorts to language which will hopefully confuse/bore everyone into silence. We understand big words too, Jake.
Back to the subject matter; could you please tell me, before they were deemed illegal, what was immoral about a person putting some yokes into their own body?
And I presume the fallacy you were alluding to is ‘post hoc ergo propter hoc’?Just because you watch The West Wing doesn’t give you an excuse to spend an inordinate amount of time on social networks trying to exert a supposed intellectual superiority over strangers, in a pathetic attempt to make you feel better about yourself (yes, that’s me using the fallacy there again, to great effect). Go outside and have the craic, or perhaps some yokes, Jake.
A bloke on e with a bag on his head talking sense about drugs.
Ah Ireland.
Wonder if they wear the bags on the radio?
I like to think so.It adds to the picture.
They wear the fancy bags for life when attending media functions!
Their beards are very impressive – the counterswing continues nicely !
Impressed!! It’s easy to yap on drugs, try staying quiet, that is the challenge failed for the many!!
The subjective objective enlightenment of drugs is not a door that is opened to all who consume – for such are the ways of men among the garden of chemicals we call earth !
Anytime I hear these guys interviewed (though i didnt hear last nights interview) I’m impressed with them. Very intelligent guys behind those masks.
No they said they were on a yoke… referring to standing on something…
I could just imagine blind boy as a young lad in school learning his vowels…
I, O, U, A, E.
Looks Gnostic to me? lol.
Do people not get the jokes, I think they go over their heads?
I seriously doubt blind boy was after a yoke, he’s probably trying to make a legitimate point under the guise of a fella who’s on a yoke… that’s all..=)
Legends!
Aboi the kids !!
Permanent marker & Morse code & out sniffing the warm tarmac lmfao
Idiots simple as and I would say that to their faces
How would you do that? You don’t know what their faces look like!
Thanks for that Jack
You’re a hard man Jack. They must be shitting themselves. Numpty.
Actions and words say everything, look at the government for that?
Looking at your face, I’m pretty sure you’d supply them with ample amounts of material to respond to you with.
Two smarter men you’d be hard pressed to find in the entertainment world.
jack u fat creep no1 wants you here
I doubt that Tordelback?
surely if ones doing an article about an interview, one should listen to the blasted interview
Eezer Goode, Eezer Goode, Ebbenezer Goode kiiiiiiid!
Naughty
Naughty
Very Naughty
Not the first time they went on air out of their bickys.
No stretch of the imagination with those 2 muppetts
Yet he is clearly more intelligent and articulate than you are, you dullard.
Who did they shag…
So stimulants might end up causing mental problems similar to dementia and Parkinson’s, who is to say alcohol is not the main reason for dementia anyway?
I think a lot of the judiciary and legalese are on drugs when tribunals are on – they seem to miss the whole point of them as far as I an see at any rate …
They just do not know anything in my view.
Is it just me or are these idiots just doing anything to get notice. Horse outside was funny I’ll give them that but they haven’t done anything since only promote idiocy
Selling out shows non stop in the UK and getting great reviews for all of them, had a show on Channel 4, keep getting massive views on new music videos whenever they upload them. Yeah, they’ve not been at much really.
Bill, that may impress some; however, allow me to point out that even Mrs. Brown’s boys (crap tv entertainment) received great reviews etc.. That is not really the yardstick of quality is it?
They’re doing anything to get noticed, like touring, making TV shows, stage musicals, and working with world-renowned comedians. But yeah, appearing on a national broadcaster to satirise a national scandal in order to cogently and succinctly draw attention to drug use and mental health in Ireland is beneath them, because it’s not as funny as that song about a horse they released 4 years ago.
Well said Andy you beat me to it. Ireland is full of people who are quick to judge and then find it very difficult to admit they might have got it wrong. The bandits seem to expose these types no end.
True Attillo but Mrs brown’s Boys doesn’t have the likes of Stephen Fry, Graham Lenehen, Russel Brand, Noel Gallagher, Lee Stewart or Alexi Sayle publicly stating that they are fans of what they do. Mightn’t mean much to you but ask someone who does comedy for a living and they might explain the difference to you.
It’s just you Fitz !
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