Outside the Saudi consulate building in Istanbul friends and colleagues of the Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi has resumed their vigil to mourn his death and demand those responsible be bought to “true justice”. He was killed two weeks ago in that building.
Arab Turkish Media Association president said, “This is not over. It’s just starting, we want Jamal’s murderers to be punished … and punishment also for the authority that gave the orders.”
Saudi Arabia disclosed the killing after more than two weeks of stubborn denials from that it had anything to do with the dissident journalist’s disappearance; statements carried on the Saudi state news agency in the early hours of Saturday morning. They have confirmed that he had died as the result of a “fistfight” inside the consulate on 2 October and his body had been disposed of by a “local collaborator”. Two senior officials had been sacked who were close confidantes of Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman. And other 18 men had been arrested in connection with the “cover-up”, according to official’s statement.
Saudi Arabia had been underneath pressures from allies within the White House to provide a proof within this escalating diplomatic crisis.
The account has been met with widespread scepticism, however, within the face of mounting proof rising from the Turkish investigation into Khashoggi’s death inform to a complicated assassination operation that would not be allotted while not the specific sanction of the Saudi royal court.
Investigators say fifteen men were sent to kill him; they arrived in metropolis from Riyadh on personal jets won by the Saudi royal family. The deputy head of Turkey’s ruling party, Numan Kurtulmuş, vowed on Saturday that Turkey would “never enable a cover-up” of the killing. “We don’t directly blame anyone. However we tend to won’t go beside effort details buried,” he said.
The UK cautiously acknowledged the Saudi version of events on Saturday. A press release from the foreign ministry said the government was considering its next steps.
In Washington, wherever the administration has created clear the US cannot afford to break relations with its most vital Arab ally; Donald Trump said what had happened to Khashoggi was “unacceptable” however known as the Saudi announcement a “good first step”.
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Saudi Arabia: Khashoggi Mourners Demand True Justice
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