New Zealand will hold two minutes of silence tomorrow, marking one week since 50 people were killed in terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said tomorrow’s commemoration will also include the Muslim call to prayer being broadcast nationally on TV and radio, and that plans are under way for a further memorial service next week.
The plans come as New Zealand’s foreign minister Winston Peters travels to Turkey to confront President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over his comments about New Zealand following the Christchurch attacks.
The President spoke at political rallies earlier this week, criticising the role of ANZACs in the Gallipoli campaign and threatened to return any visitors to Gallipoli with anti-Islam sentiment back in coffins.
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