Update - Turkey's Erdogan To Nz Terrorist: You Will Pay For This

The terrorist who killed and injured some 100 worshippers at New Zealand mosques last week "will pay," vowed Turkey's president on Tuesday.



"You will pay for this. If New Zealand doesn't do so, one way or another we will make you pay," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said of the terrorist, speaking at a campaign rally in Turkey's Black Sea province of Zonguldak.



At least 50 people were killed and about as many injured when a terrorist opened fire on worshippers during Friday prayers at the Al Noor and Linwood mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand's third-largest city.



The massacre was livestreamed on social media, and was accompanied by the release of a racist, Islamophobic, manifesto that also attacked Turkey.



"You dastardly, abjectly, licentiously killed 50 of our brethren who were in worship," Erdogan said, referring to the terrorist.



Words inscribed on the terrorist's weapons were "a confession" that he was targeting Turkey, despite being located so far away, said Erdogan. Photos of the weapons show the names of historical figures who fought Ottoman armies.



Three Turkish citizens are among the victims of the terror attacks, Erdogan said on Saturday.



Brenton Harrison Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian, is being charged over the massacre. -