Unic Press UK: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Thursday that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has questions to answer with regard to the brutal killing of a journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey.
Çavuşoğlu, who spoke during a news conference with the Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki, said: “There are still questions that need answers. Who gave them the orders? Where is the body? You admit they did it, but why are they not saying where? His family also wants to know and pay their final tribute,” the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
The Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu added that Turkey would share the report of its investigations with all countries and institutions who wish to have it, but won’t be filing a criminal case at the international court because the Vienna Convention stipulates that the trial in this kind of circumstance should hold in Turkey.
Turkish authorities had accused the Saudi Arabian government of killing Jamal Khashoggi, who had walked into the Saudi Arabian embassy on October 2, 2018 to carry out paperwork ahead of his marriage to a Turkish national, but did not exit the building thereafter.
The Turkish government had persistently submitted that it had a proof of Mr Khashoggi being killed inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey, claiming to be in possession of the audio and video recording of the killing, and seemingly accusing the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of authorizing murder.
After circa two weeks’ of denying the allegations of murder, the Saudi government facing scathing condemnation by state actors and institutions confessed that Mr Jamal Khashoggi was indeed killed inside its consulate, saying that Khashoggi died during a fistfight. Thursday the Saudis accepted the position of Turkey that the murder of Khashoggi had been premeditated.
There are reports by some of the mainstream media outfits that during a recent visit to Turkey, the CIA Director Gina Haspel did listen to the audio recording of Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi’s last moment.
