[ad_1]
Istanbul (APA / dpa / Reuters) – In the case of Saudi systemic journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered, Turkey is increasing pressure on Saudi Arabia and providing sound recordings to important allies. "You've heard the whole speech, you know," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said over the weekend. What can be heard exactly on the tapes, remained initially uncertain.
In addition to the United States, Germany, France, Britain and Saudi Arabia hold the recordings, Erdogan said. On the sidelines of celebrations of the end of the First World War, a hundred years ago in Paris, Erdogan informed US President Donald Trump of possible solutions in this case, announced Sunday the US presidential office. The United States ended the refueling of Saudi-led alliance fighter jets during the civil war in Yemen this weekend. Support for Saudi Arabia during the three-year civil war, which killed more than 10,000 people and displaced more than two million people, has long been the subject of controversy in the United States.
Erdogan's statements seem to attempt to maintain international pressure on Saudi Arabia. Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was killed at his country's consulate in Istanbul in early October. Erdogan had previously said that it was a bloody act ordered by the highest Saudi authorities, which the Riyadh government denies. However, this statement was not repeated by the Turkish president.
According to earlier statements by Turkish government officials, the Ankara government has a number of audio recordings on the Khashoggi case, which are stressful for Saudi Arabia. In one of them, the conduct of the murder of the journalist is documented. Erdogan called on Saudi leaders to identify Khashoggi's killer, who was part of a group of fifteen people from Saudi Arabia to Turkey a day before the journalist's badbadination in early October.
Prince Khalid bin Bandar, Saudi Ambbadador to Berlin, defended his cousin, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, against the murder in Welt am Sonntag. "It's not his way of managing things," he said. "He said that he has nothing to do with that, and I have no reason to doubt it." Meanwhile, Bin Bandar called for a fresh start in relations with Germany He had good discussions with the government in Berlin.
Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated their call to Saudi Arabia to completely clarify the context of Khashoggi's badbadination. The two statesmen share the view that this case should not lead to further destabilize the Middle East, according to French government circles. Two sources confirmed to the Reuters news agency that the current CIA director, Gina Haspel, had heard the sound recordings of Kashoggi's badbadination.
Saudi Arabia admitted, after the initial denial, that Khashoggi had been killed by Saudi security forces. Thus, the country has been trapped by international criticism, including from its important ally, the United States. Riyadh has accused senior government officials of sending a 15-member special team to carry out the act on their own. Thus, the leaders reportedly wanted to remove powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and King Salman from the line of fire. They would not have known about the plan. The version has been challenged internationally as not very credible.
(Digest Weekend)
Source link
