Speaking at an emergency session, Winston Peters told representatives of Muslim nations: ‘no punishment can match the depravity of his crime but the families of the fallen will have justice’
New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters speaks to the media after an emergency session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's executive committee, in Istanbul, on March 22, 2019.New Zealand’s deputy prime minister said the gunman accused of killing 50 people in two mosques in the South Pacific nation would spend the rest of his life in isolation in prison and called for solidarity to eradicate “hate-filled ideologies.
Erdogan also drew Australia’s ire for comments suggesting that Australians and New Zealanders with anti-Muslim sentiments would be sent back in coffins like their ancestors who fought against Turks in the World War I Battle of Gallipoli. Peters said, however, that he didn’t discuss Erdogan’s use of the footage with Turkey’s foreign minister or president though it was widely expected that he’d raise the issue. Erdogan later on Friday again showed an excerpt of the video at an election rally in the central city of Konya.
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