Erdogan on the murder of Khashoggi: come from the highest rank

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was ordered at the highest point in Saudi Arabia.

Turkish investigators have a new theory that Khashoggi's remains have been deposited in a corrosive acid.

"We know that the perpetrators are among the 18 suspects arrested in Saudi Arabia, and we know that these people came to execute their orders: kill Khashoggi and go from there," writes President Erdogan in a Washington Post column.

"Finally, we know that the order to kill Khashoggi comes from the highest levels of the Saudi government.

Erdogan promised Turkey to do everything, but at the same time, saying that Turkey and Saudi Arabia had good relations and that "not for a second", he thought the Saudi King Salman had ordered the murder .

Can be solved

Although Saudi Arabia has acknowledged that Khashoggi was murdered at the Istanbul consulate in Istanbul, and although the Turkish government has asked the question many times, there is no answer as to at the place where the journalist's remains are.

The recent investigation theory of Turkish investigators can provide an answer about the body.

"We now see that it was not just about cutting, but that they got rid of the body by dissolving it," Yasin Aktay, President Erdogan's advisor, told Hürriyet newspaper.

An anonymous Turkish source has already said the same thing to the Washington Post.

Makabra data

The theory is the latest in a series of dramatic and macabre tasks reported – often with the help of anonymous Turkish sources – about Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared when he entered the Saudi consulate in Saudi Arabia. Istanbul on October 2nd.

The information that has been revealed is contradictory and, in some cases, contradicted by other parties in the Khashoggi case. Most often, they can not be confirmed by an independent body and must therefore be taken with a pinch of salt.

After several weeks of refusing to know what was going on, Saudi Arabia claimed that Khashoggi, who had been living in exile in the United States since 2017, had been killed during a fight in the interior. of the consulate. In the next release, the Saudis said it would be a planned killing.

The sanctions are delayed

Turkish chief prosecutor Irfan Fidan says the 59-year-old journalist is put to death immediately after he enters the consulate. Jamal Khashoggi's fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, who was waiting outside when he came in, commented on the suspicion – she too in an opinion piece published in the Washington Post.

"So barbaric and ruthless.What crime did he commit for doing it? Why did they kill him so brutally? There is no explanation for hatred", she wrote.

Hatice Cengiz believes that it is now up to the international community to bring those responsible to justice.

"From all countries, the United States should show the way," she writes.

The United States announces the postponement of an official response to Saudi Arabia following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

"It will probably take us a few weeks before we have enough evidence to present sanctions, but I think we will be there," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a radio interview.