Meka Whaitiri: Veterans Affairs Minister on preparing to fly to Turkey for Anzac Day commemorations

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Apr 19, 2022 · 3m

Our Veterans Affairs Minister is preparing to fly to Turkey, after two years of missed Anzac commemorations at Gallipoli.

Meka Whaitiri will visit Commonwealth and Turkish memorial sites and tour battlefields on the peninsula.

She is scheduled to meet the Governor of Canakkale and attend a castle opening - before hosting a New Zealand trade and enterprise event in Istanbul.

Whaitiri says it's wonderful to be going back, as New Zealand is reconnects with the world.

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