Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has invoked the Anzacs’ Gallipoli campaign in World War I in responding to the mosque attacks in Christchurch, saying anyone who went to Turkey for anti-Muslim reasons would be returned “in coffins”, as their grandfathers were.

The Hurriyet news site reported that Erdogan had referred to the failed invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula by allied forces, including the Australian and New Zealand troops, in World War I and said Turkey would “write history” again if anyone stood against Turks, Muslims and all the oppressed.

In a message apparently aimed at New Zealanders and Westerners, Erdogan said: “Your grandparents came, some of them returned in coffins. If you come as well like your grandfathers, be sure that you will be gone like your grandfathers,” he said.

Erdogan, who is on the campaign trail before Turkey’s elections later this month, was speaking at Canakkale, near the Gallipoli peninsula, at an event to mark the defeat of the Allied forces.

He said “the enemies of Muslims have shown that they continue to hate us”.

SHOOTER WILL FACE FULL FORCE OF LAW: ARDERN
Meanwhile, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern promised today that the man responsible for last week’s deadly mosque massacres would face “the full force of the law”, as she vowed never to utter his name.

“He sought many things from his act of terror, but one was notoriety — that is why you will never hear me mention his name,” Ardern said in an emotional address to a special meeting of parliament, which she opened with the Arabic greeting “as salaam aleikum” — ‘peace be upon you’.

“I implore you: Speak the names of those who were lost rather than the name of the man who took them,” she told the gathering in Wellington, four days after the massacre in the southern city of Christchurch.

“He is a terrorist. He is a criminal. He is an extremist. But he will, when I speak, be nameless,” she said.

Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, is reported to be planning to represent himself when he stands trial for shootings last week that killed 50.

There are fears Tarrant, a self-confessed white supremacist who referenced Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik in his “manifesto”, could use the legal process to espouse extremist views.

Ardern said efforts had to be made to prevent giving the gunman the attention he wanted.

“He obviously had a range or reasons for committing this atrocious terrorist attacks. Lifting his profile was one them and that’s something we can absolutely deny him,” she told reporters prior to the first sitting of Parliament since the March 15 terror attack.

“One thing I can assure you, you won’t hear me speak his name.”

Tarrant will return to court in April.

NEW ZEALANDERS GIVE UP GUNS
In other developments, New Zealanders have begun to voluntarily hand over their semiautomatic guns as their government looks to swiftly tighten laws and mulls a buyback.

“If anyone has a weapon that either they should not be in possession of, or they have concern over the events of Friday, they are welcome at any time to surrender that weapon to police,” Ardern told reporters today.

Farmer John Hart, who has owned one of the semiautomatic weapons for a decade said he had turned his over to police.

“Once I came to the realisation that any convenience or utility I may have having it around the farm is far outweighed by the risk it poses just by existing. The only way I could go forward with a clear conscience was to not have it,” he told Radio NZ.

“We don’t need these in our country,” he posted on social media.

WEBSITES REFUSE TO HELP COPS
New Zealand police investigating the online presence of the Australian white supremacist charged with killing 50 in a terror attack on mosques are being met with resistance from some websites.

Investigators have been looking into 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant’s involvement in far-right chat boards and other internet activity since the attack in Christchurch on Friday.

In one email exchange New Zealand police requested an American-based website preserve the emails and IP addresses linked to a number of posts about the attack, but were met with an expletive-filled reply.

In a reply posted on the site, its founder described the request as “a joke” before calling New Zealand a “s---hole country” and an “irrelevant island nation”.

Police in a statement confirmed they had contacted the site, but would not comment further.

Tarrant posted a rambling 74-page “manifesto” online and foreshadowed the shootings on at least one other controversial forum popular among alt-right groups.

He also live-streamed the attack, with Facebook saying it had taken down 1.5 million videos in 24 hours as authorities scrambled to stop its spread.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today said it’s “horrendous” that the livestream of the shooting can still be viewed on Facebook.

The Government had been in contact with Facebook and said it was ultimately the social media giant’s responsibility to remove it.

“The responsibility sits with them.”

ACCUSED ISOLATED FOR PERSONAL SAFETY
Tarrant is reportedly being kept in solitary confinement to keep him safe from other inmates.

The NSW-born suspect is being held in remand after he appeared in Christchurch District Court.

Criminal justice advocate Sir Kim Workman told the NZ Herald Tarrant could be in danger in prison by fellow prisoners who were sickened by the massacre.

He said: “That’s a matter I’m sure Corrections will be talking about as we speak.

“Those sorts of feelings will run high with the prisons.

“The only thing that Corrections can do is to segregate them and keep them in separate custodial management regimes.”

Meanwhile, New Zealand is likely to adopt an Australian-style guns buy back scheme and a ban on semiautomatic weapons under Cabinet in-principle support for gun control law reform in the wake of the Christchurch massacre.

Ardern met her cabinet and her high-level national crisis team on Monday to collectively look at what should be done with guns after 50 people were killed in the biggest shooting tragedy in New Zealand’s modern history.

She vowed emphatically to toughen the laws and despite previous attempts, had wide support to now adopt Australia’s approach post the Port Arthur tragedy where more than a third of weapons were surrendered and destroyed as part of a government buyback scheme backed by stricter gun buying laws including outright bans on certain weapons.

She declined yesterday to reveal the full extent of the proposed law reforms signed off in-principle by Cabinet as details were still being considered and Opposition support to be sought but promised a detailed plan would be revealed in 10 days.

She said it had only been 72 hours since the tragedy, while in Australia they had 12 days before revealing law changes.

“As a Cabinet we were absolutely clear, the terror attack on Friday was the worst act of terrorism on our shores,” she said, that highlighted the urgent need for change.

She specifically would not answer whether her plan would mirror laws in Australia.

“There was probably a reason it took Australia 12 days, I think the fact we are here and I’m giving you an assurance that we have made a decision as a Cabinet, we are unified, there are simply details to work through, these aren’t simple areas of law and that’s what we will be taking our time to get right.”

Also discussed was what legislation would be required to regulate social media which live-streamed footage allegedly shot by Tarrant.

The Cabinet meeting and convening of the top secret Officials Committee for Domestic and External Security Coordination (ODESC) came as Christchurch locals returned to work and school for the first time since the shooting last Friday.

A heavy police presence was on the streets as a precaution.

“We are looking to lessons learnt in other jurisdictions in patterns that tend to follow (terror attacks), retaliatory messages, suggestions of copy cat activity, these are patterns of behaviour, our agencies are live to that, police are taking a precautionary approach in their presence and we remain with a threat level of high to ensure our agencies are live to the patterns we see internationally,” said Prime Minister Ardern.

Her words came as Police Commissioner Mike Bush revealed he had 250 detectives and specialists on the attack investigation which was the largest in New Zealand’s history and he was in direct contact with counterparts from the NSW Police and Australian Federal Police.

He confirmed the Australian police had already passed on material but nothing to suggest there was further direct danger in either New Zealand or Australia, however the threat level would remain at “high” in NZ and an increased police presence would remain for “weeks to come” as a precaution.

On guns, he confirmed stations were preparing to receive weapons the public may want to surrender during any amnesty.

The first bodies of the victims were released to families for traditional Muslim burials, easing some of the tensions families had in perceived delays of the return of bodies post identification.

Tarrant meanwhile revealed he planned to run his own trial defence, raising fears he will use the court as a platform for his views.

He reportedly told his duty lawyer Richard Peters, who represented him for his brief appearance on Friday to be formally charged with one count of murder, he would represent himself in future.

Mr Peters said it could be the Grafton man wanted to use the trial to amplify his beliefs.

“What did seem apparent to me is he seemed quite clear and lucid, whereas this may seem like very irrational behaviour,” Mr Peters told local media.

“He didn’t appear to me to be facing any challenges or mental impairment other than holding fairly extreme views.”

Tarrant is to appear in court next on April 5 where he is expected to enter a plea.

The organisers of New Zealand’s largest gun show say they have cancelled the event to show respect for victims of the Christchurch massacre and because of “elevated security risks.”

Jacinda Ardern says banning private ownership of semiautomatic rifles, which were used in the attack, is an option.

Ardern will announce this week the changes to gun laws with a ban on military semiautomatic weapons is almost certain.

“You can surrender your gun to the police at any time,” Ardern said in a message to gun owners at her weekly post-Cabinet press conference.

New Zealand police are treating as suspicious a fire that burned down a small gun club overnight.

Fire crews were called to the scene in the North Island town of Kaitaia on Tuesday early morning.

No one was hurt in the incident.