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Turkey was the only country in the world that really held Saudi Arabia responsible. Others just sit and watched the horror story. Because money talks!
by ekkodur 6y ago
Turkey was the only country in the world that really held Saudi Arabia responsible. Others just sit and watched the horror story. Because money talks!
- will_pseudonym 6y ago> Because money talks! Could you elaborate in what ways money influenced Turkey to speak out about it, where others didn't? I'm intensely curious about this.
- ekkodur 6y ago- UK BAE Systems, sold £15bn-worth of arms to the Saudi Arabia over the five years of its intervention in Yemen. Even after the killing: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/uk-okays-800m-saudi-arms-sale-after-khashoggi-murder/1539138 https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/uk-okays-800m-saudi-arms-sal... -US($8bn of arms sale) https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trump-puts-saudi-arms-sales-above-inquiry-into-khashoggi-killing https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trump-puts-saudi-arms-sal... - FR (€1.4 billion) https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/10/france-should-halt-arms-exports-saudi-arabia-egypt https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/10/france-should-halt-arms-... Jamal Khashoggi: EU divided over arms sales to Saudi Arabia six months after murder: https://www.euronews.com/2019/04/02/jamal-khashoggi-eu-divided-over-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-six-months-after-murder https://www.euronews.com/2019/04/02/jamal-khashoggi-eu-divid...