Politics
Turkish Outrage Over Khashoggi Hints at Changing World Order
- Erdogan voices international outrage as U.S. remains cautious
- Saudis unlikely to follow others in break from Pax-Americana
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Three weeks after Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, it wasn’t the leader of the free world who articulated international outrage at mounting evidence of his murder, but the president of Turkey.
Any cover-up of the true authors of such a savage attack “would be an affront to humanity’s conscience,” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his parliamentary party on Tuesday. He demanded justice for Khashoggi’s family and a full investigation.