Malcolm Turnbull has arrived in Turkey for a G20 summit dominated by the issues of terrorism and Syria.
At least 128 people have been killed and 200 injured in terrorist shootings and explosions at a concert hall, football stadium and other venues in Paris.
French President Francois Hollande cancelled his attendance at the annual economic conference in Antalya but other leaders are starting to arrive ahead of formal talks on Sunday and Monday.
Mr Turnbull's first pre-summit event will be a bilateral meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The prime minister will get a first-hand account of how Turkey is tackling Islamic extremists and struggling to deal with more than two million refugees from the conflict in Syria and Iraq.
Turkey's capital of Ankara suffered a terrorist attack on October 10 that killed more than 100 civilians and injured hundreds more.
European leaders on Friday offered Turkey a three billion euro package for refugee camps.
But European countries themselves are failing to tackle the escalating problem, with fewer than 150 people resettled to date out of the promised 160,000.
US President Barack Obama has urged fellow G20 members to consider refugees not only a humanitarian issue but "an economic opportunity worth seizing".
While fighting terrorism will be on the agenda of the opening leaders' dinner, Mr Turnbull wants the focus of the summit to be on promoting jobs and economic growth.
He says innovation needs to be at the core of stimulating growth but other leaders including Mr Obama say G20 members need to consider income tax cuts and government spending to boost consumption.
Mr Turnbull will also meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday.
Japan is one of three countries bidding for Australia's future submarine contract and has recently entered into a free trade deal.
The G20 leaders will be briefed on how growth targets set at the 2014 Brisbane summit are being met.
Mr Turnbull has admitted G20 member growth forecasts had been "scaled back" since that summit set a target of more than two per cent growth above the expected trajectory by 2018.
