Australia to review travel advice for tourists travelling to Gallipoli for ...

Australia will review travel advice for those travelling to Gallipoli for Anzac Day in the wake of the Turkish president's threats that anti-Muslim visitors would return in 'coffins like their grandparents'.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison slammed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday after the Turkish leader made the shocking comments at a political rally while denouncing Islamophobia.

Mr Erdogan, who played footage of the Christchurch terrorist attack at the election rally, sparked the row by claiming Australian diggers fought in Gallipoli in World War I for 'anti-Islam' reasons.  

'Why did you come here? What business did you have here? We had no issues with you, why did you come all the way over here? The only reason: we're Muslim, and they're Christian.'

The president has been criticised for exploiting the video footage from Christchurch as authorities crack down on the internet and social media to stop the clips from spreading.

'Your grandparents came, some of them returned in coffins,' Mr Erdogan warned Australians.

'If you come as well like your grandfathers, be sure that you will be gone like your grandfathers.' 

Mr Morrison said the president insulted the memory of troops from Australia and New Zealand who fought in Turkey during World War I. 

'Remarks have been made by the Turkish President Erdogan that I consider highly offensive to Australians, and highly reckless in this very sensitive environment,' he said on Wednesday.

'They are offensive because they insult the memory of our Anzacs and they violate the pledge that is etched in the stone at Gallipoli, of the promise of Ataturk to the mothers of other Anzacs.'