Trump Wants to Turn a Blind Eye to Khashoggi’s Murder: Turkey
“Trump’s statements amount to him saying I’ll turn a blind eye no matter what,” said Turkey’s foreign minister.
Turkey’s foreign minister on Friday, 23 November, said that US President Donald Trump intended to turn a bind eye to journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder.
Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey's foreign minister in an interview to CNN-Turk said "Trump's statements amount to him saying I'll turn a blind eye no matter what." Cavusoglu also said "Money isn't everything. We must not move away from human values," AP reported.
He made the comments referring to Trump's continued support for Saudi Arabia.
On Thursday, 22 November, Trump had said "maybe the world should be held accountable because the world is a vicious place. The world is a very, very vicious place."
(With inputs from AP.)
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