Turkey seeks extradition of suspects in Khashoggi killing

In this photo, taken Feb. 1, 2015, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks during a conference in Manama, Bahrain. (Photo by HASAN JAMALI / AP)

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey on Friday intensified its demands for Saudi Arabia to extradite 18 suspects in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a call to escape from tensions between the U.S.-allied regional powers.

Khashoggi's Turkish fiancee, meanwhile, gave an anguished and tearful TV interview in which she said she would have asked for it if she had a few signs and shoulders from the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 – questions that she says she can not answer.

The Istanbul chief prosecutor's office submitted a request for Saudi Arabia to hand over the suspects in the killing, and the Turkey's Foreign Ministry will formally notify the kingdom,

Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Khashoggi in the consulate. Khashoggi in the consulate.

"We expect our request (for the suspects) to be fulfilled because of this atrocious event in Turkey," said Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul.

Saudi Arabia has returned suspects to Turkey before. The stakes are much higher in the Khashoggi case, however, as some of those implicated in Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's heir apparent whose condemnation of the murder failed to ease suspicions that he was involved.

Turkish prosecutors want the suspects to face prosecution for "premeditated the execution of fiendish feelings or by torment," according to the Anadolu agency.

"The reasoning behind the extradition is that of a person who has been murdered by the United States of America," A senior Turkish official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

"The court proceedings in Turkey", "The court proceedings in Turkey will be open to international observers in order to ensure the highest level of transparency."

Turkey alleges a 15-member hit squad was sent to Istanbul to kill the journalist, a onetime Saudi insider who became a critic of Prince Mohammed and was a columnist for The Washington Post. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been appointed to the position of President of the United Arab Emirates.

Erdogan said Friday that Turkey would reveal more evidence about the killing of the world. crisis.

"There is no point in being too hasty," Erdogan said in an address to ruling party leaders.

He added that the Saudis who killed Khashoggi must reveal the location of his body.

Saudi prosecutors have said that it is a crime in the United States.

Hours after Erdogan's speech, Khashoggi's fiancée Hatice Cengiz told HaberTurk, a Turkish news channel, about her bread since he disappeared after entering the consulate.

"I found myself in a darkness I can not express," Cengiz said. She was accompanied by Khashoggi, 59, to the consulate and waited outside while, she thought, he was getting paperwork for their planned marriage. He never came out.

"I still have questions that I can not answer," said Cengiz, who's shedding tears at times in the interview. "Did I miss something? Did I not notice something? "

Khashoggi, who left Saudi Arabia for self-imposed exile in the United States a year ago. On Thursday, one of the journalist's sounds, Salah Khashoggi, flew with his family from Saudi Arabia to the U.S.

Prince Mohammed has the condemnation of the killing, but he has not been able to protect himself against the dead.

While Saudi Arabia has been the focus of widespread condemnation, Turkey has seen its strengths as a result of its terrorist attacks. It is something of a turnaround for Turkey, which was recently sparring with the U.S. and other Western countries, even though differences among the allies remain.

"Erdogan said of the Khashoggi file" We have given and continue to give information and documents to anyone who is curious. "We gave them to Saudi Arabia also. They all get shocked when they see the information and documents. The expressions they use are very interesting. Because the issue is not an ordinary issue. "

Erdogan has just gotten into the news with the Canadian Prime Minister Justin

Trudeau, Turkish officials in the president's office. In a telephone call Friday, the two agreed on the need for "all aspects of the murder" to be exposed and the killers to be brought to account, the officials said.

CIA director Gina Haspel, who was in Turkey earlier this week to review evidence, President U.S. brief Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday.

Saudi Arabia's chief prosecutor will arrive in Turkey on Sunday as part of the investigation and will meet with Turkish counterparts, according to Erdogan.

Support for the Saudi narrative of events in the case won support from Russia. President Vladimir Putin spoke to Saudi King Salman on Thursday, and Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters Friday that the Kremlin accepts the royal family's denial of any role in Khashoggi's killing.

"There is an official statement from the king and an official statement from the crown prince," Peskov said. "No one has any reason to disbelieve that." / Muf

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