Scott Morrison says he's 'deeply offended' by Turkish President Recep Erdogan's Gallipoli comments after he warned anti-Muslim Australians would be sent home 'in coffins like their grandfathers' Prime Minister Scott Morrison has slammed the Turkish President's threat Recep Tayyip Erdogan said anti-Muslim visitors would be sent back in coffins He was making a crude reference to the failed 1915 Anzac Gallipoli campaign By Stephen Johnson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 21:36 GMT, 19 March 2019 | Updated: 21:43 GMT, 19 March 2019 Viewcomments Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the Turkish President's warning that anti-Muslim Australians will return home in coffins like their grandfathers if they visit his country was 'deeply offensive'. Recep Tayyip Erdogan (pictured) referenced the doomed Gallipoli campaign during World War I Recep Tayyip Erdogan has inflamed diplomatic ties by referencing Gallipoli following the Christchurch mosque massacres of last week. 'I find the comments deeply offensive but also unhelpful. I think it's our job here not to escalate this. It's our job to take the temperature down,' Mr Morrison told Sydney's 2GB radio on Wednesday. On Monday Erodogan, a 65-year-old Islamist leader, referenced the doomed 1915 Gallipoli campaign of World War I during a public speech on Monday. 'Your grandparents came, some of them returned in coffins,' he said in remarks reported by the Turkish Hurriyet Daily News. 'If you come as well like your grandfathers, be sure that you will be gone like your grandfathers.' After World War I, Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his secular successors had fostered close diplomatic ties with Australia. Erodogan, however, who became President in 2014 after serving as prime minister has broken decades of secular consensus in Turkey by ruling as an autocratic Islamist leader. Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility