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NZ terror attacks were 'the toxic product of ignorance and hate' - Erdogan

"We must establish that there is absolutely no difference between the murderer who killed innocent people in New Zealand and those who have carried out terrorist acts" in Turkey, Europe, elsewhere - President Erdogan writing in The Washington Post.

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Mourners and well-wishers place flowers and tributes near the Al Noor mosque on March 18, 2019 in Christchurch, New Zealand. 50 people were killed and dozens were wounded in a terrorist attack on two mosques in the New Zealand city on Friday, March 15, 2019.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the Australian-born terrorist who killed at least 50 people at two New Zealand mosques is the same as Daesh terrorists.

In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post on Wednesday, Erdogan also called on Western leaders to learn from "the courage, leadership and sincerity" of New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and "embrace Muslims living in their respective countries."

The opinion piece's headline read: "The New Zealand killer and the Islamic State are cut from the same cloth."

Erdogan said the West "must reject the normalisation of racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia."