General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTurkish president says murder of Jamal Khashoggi was 'planned,' calls for extradition of suspects
ISTANBUL Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a planned and brutal murder and called on Saudi Arabia to extradite 18 suspects to Turkey to face justice for the crime.
Erdogans highly anticipated comments, during a speech to his ruling party in Ankara, the Turkish capital, contradicted Saudi accounts that Khashoggi was killed when an argument inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul escalated into a fistfight.
The Turkish leader did not directly accuse the Saudi leadership of involvement in the killing but strongly indicated that the Saudi investigation, which has resulted in the arrests of 18 people so far, had not reached high enough into the kingdoms ruling circles.
It will not satisfy the public by just pinning this kind of matter on a few security and intelligence officers, he said. Covering up this kind of savagery will hurt the conscience of all humanity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/turkeys-president-to-deliver-speech-expected-to-describe-how-khashoggi-was-killed/2018/10/22/4098c300-d60c-11e8-8384-bcc5492fef49_story.html?utm_term=.2e71efffaddb&wpisrc=al_news__alert-world--alert-national&wpmk=1
Cirque du So-What
(25,939 posts)...and so do those who condemn your regime for continuing to deny the Armenian genocide, which also hurts the conscience of all humanity.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)I know that Turks and Arabs have historic issues dating back to the Ottoman Empire, but specifically?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Regional Dominance in the influence game. And the mass killings of the past will never go away in the Middle East.
Erdogan wants to be the new Saddam.