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Press pays attention to Khashoggi, but not Turkey’s killing of journalists

The ongoing story of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul was less important to Western journalists than attacking the Trump administration.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: World Economic Forum.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: World Economic Forum.
  • Ironically, the same members of the media who have been obsessed with the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the Saudi-U.S. alliance have devoted little space to the reality that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government has been imprisoning, torturing and killing journalists for years.
  • The ongoing story of Khashoggi’s murder at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul—more than being a function of concern for the Saudi journalist—was less important to Western journalists than attacking the Trump administration.
  • Read full article at Gatestone.
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