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Turkish outrage over Khashoggi's murder hints at changing world order

Erdogan voices international outrage as US remains cautious

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Jamal Khashoggi

Marc Champion | Bloomberg
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.

The contrast with US President Donald Trump’s more tepid response -- Trump said Erdogan had been “pretty rough on Saudi Arabia” -- underscores changes in

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