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by ekkodur 1941 days 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!
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will_pseudonym 1941 days 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.

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ekkodur 1939 days 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-sal...

-US($8bn of arms sale) 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-...

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...

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