SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called for calm on Friday as police prepared for clashes between protesters at a planned rally outside a Sydney mosque that was attended by a teenager who killed a police officer a week ago.

Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, 15, was shot and killed by police after he opened fire on police accountant Curtis Cheng as Cheng left police headquarters in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta last Friday.

The shooting and subsequent arrest of five people in raids in Sydney has stoked anxiety over further militant violence and retaliatory attacks against Muslims.

Turnbull called mutual respect between faiths “the glue that binds this very diverse country together” and blamed anti-Muslim protesters for stoking divisiveness.

“Those who do that are making the work of the police and security services ... who seek to prevent violent extremism much harder,” he told reporters in Sydney.