Turkey’s foreign minister accused President Trump on Friday of turning a “blind eye” to the killing of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul.

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu’s rebuke comes a day after Trump doubled down in his defense of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman following a Thanksgiving call with US military commanders.

The president pushed aside a “high confidence” conclusion by the CIA that the crown prince ordered the assassination, saying, “Whether he did or whether he didn’t, he denies it vehemently.”

“They have not concluded. Nobody’s concluded. I don’t know if anybody’s going to be able to conclude that the Crown Prince did it,” Trump said Thursday. “They said he might have done it. That’s a big difference.”

The prince, Saudia Arabia’s de facto ruler, “hates it more than I do,” Trump added about the killing.

Asked who should be accountable for the murder, Trump said: “Maybe the world should be held accountable because the world is a vicious place.”

“In a way, Mr. Trump’s statement means, ‘Come what may, I will turn a blind eye on this.’ This approach is wrong. Money is not everything. We should not distance ourselves from human values,” Cavusoglu told CNN Turk.

“We found the US President’s statement about MBS’s involvement where he said ‘Maybe he did, maybe he didn’t,’ interesting. What he based this on, we don’t know,” he said, referring to the 33-year-old prince by his initials.

Trump has suggested that damaging relations with Saudi Arabia as a result of the killing would trigger “a global depression,” result in the loss of “hundreds of thousands of jobs” and leave Israel defenseless.

The president has cited Washington’s lucrative arms deals with Riyadh and the kingdom’s power to control oil prices and contain Iranian aggression in the region, as reasons to minimize the response to Khashoggi’s death.

The US has sanctioned 17 Saudis after the journalist’s killing.