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The Saudis are calling for a boycott of Amazon and its regional subsidiary Souq.com in response to the Washington Post's coverage of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Thousands of people on Twitter in Saudi Arabia echoed these boycott calls to hit Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, founder and largest shareholder of Amazon. Khashoggi, assassinated last month at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, was a columnist for the Washington Post.
"Boycott Amazon" was the hottest hashtag on Twitter in Saudi Arabia for several hours Sunday, according to Bloomberg. Users appeared to be unhappy with The Post's continued coverage of Khashoggi's murder as an attack on the politics of their kingdom. Many were annoyed by an editorial released on Friday by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who criticized Saudi officials for attempting to "cover up" the killing of Khashoggi.
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The editorial board of the Post has repeatedly called for transparency in the investigation of Khashoggi's death in October and has published horrendous details about the killing, citing information from Turkish officials.
While Saudi Arabia's description of what happened to the 59-year-old man has changed several times, the Turkish authorities said that he had been strangled shortly after entering the country. consulate and that his body had been dismembered. La Poste had previously reported that Turkish officials were pursuing a theory that Khashoggi's remains were dissolved in an acid at the consulate or at the nearby consul general.
His remains have not been found.
Saudi users shared videos and photos of themselves removing Amazon and Souq apps from their phone.
Some have also posted on the cancellation of their Amazon or Souq accounts. Influential users have described Western media coverage of Khashoggi's case as a "media war," Bloomberg said, while other tweets seemed to be automated or copied and pasted.
Some users have made fun of the boycott campaign of Amazon, which recently became the second US company to reach a market capitalization of $ 1 trillion.
La Poste quoted an unnamed Turkish official as saying that the authorities had found biological evidence in the consulate garden to support this theory.
"Khashoggi's body did not have to be buried," said the official, according to the daily "The Post".
Earlier theories said that Khashoggi's body was wrapped in some sort of cloth and given to a local Turkish co-conspirator.
