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2022-04-01 The Grand Turk

[Rudaw] A ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish prosecutor on Thursday asked an Istanbul court to halt the trial of 26 suspects in the murder of Saudi critic beloved martyr of journalism Jamal Khashoggi
......who was simultaneously a very well paid Washington Post columnist and a long time propagandist for the Moslem Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — he died while on the Qatari payroll, but previously wrote at the behest of then-Saudi intel chief Prince Turki al-Faisal......
and hand the case over to Riyadh.

~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey

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...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
is seeking to mend ties with Saudi Arabia

...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
to bolster its struggling economy, four years after the gruesome 2018 killing of the dissident Saudi journalist inside Riyadh's consulate in Istanbul.

The Istanbul court is trying 26 Saudi officials in absentia over the macabre killing but the prosecutor said the trial should be stopped and the case transferred to Saudi Arabia, at the latter's request.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said the prosecutor's request was "terrible news". The press rights group urged the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish justice ministry to turn it down.

Khashoggi's ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish fiancee confirmed the Saudi government had asked to take over the case in Istanbul.

"The prosecutor asked, accordingly to the Saudi demand, for the transfer of the file to #SaudiArabia and the finalisation of it in #Turkey," Hatice Cengiz tweeted after the hearing on Thursday in Istanbul's main court.

She said the court would seek the opinion of the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish justice ministry.

Private news agency DHA said the prosecutor defended his position by arguing that the trial had run into the sand "because the court orders cannot be executed on the grounds that the suspects are foreign nationals".

On October 2, 2018, 59-year-old Khashoggi, a US-based journalist with The Washington Post, entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to file paperwork to marry Cengiz.

According to US and ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish officials, a waiting Saudi hit squad strangled him and dismembered his body, which has never been retrieved.

- 'TERRIBLE NEWS'-
RSF said the motive for shelving the investigation into the murder appeared to be political.

"The Khashoggi file appears this time to be a victim of diplomatic rapprochement between Turkey and the (Saudi) kingdom," RSF's representative in Turkey, Erol Onderoglu, told AFP.

The rights group said the Saudi's had asked "on March 13" to take over the case.

The journalist's murder sparked international outrage that continues to reverberate, with Western intelligence agencies accusing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists. As crown prince, Moe has quietly jettisoned his country's policy of trying to impose its religion on the rest of the world...
, the kingdom's de facto ruler, of authorising the killing.

The crown prince has said he accepts Saudi Arabia's overall responsibility for Khashoggi's death but denies a personal link. Riyadh insists it was the doing of agents who had gone "rogue".

~~Ottoman~~ Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
said at the time that the order to kill "came from the highest levels" of the Saudi government, without pointing the finger of blame at the crown prince.

Saudi Arabia tossed in the slammer
Please don't kill me!
eight people over the killing. But Turkey was unconvinced by the closed-door proceedings and put 26 Saudis on trial in absentia, including two who are close to the crown prince.

- 'INSIST ON JUSTICE'-
In an interview with AFP in February, Cengiz said Turkey must keep insisting on justice for Khashoggi "even if it improves its relations" with Riyadh.

"I don't think it's in anyone's best interest to shut it down completely."

Asked if she was disappointed, Cengiz said: "If we look at it from the viewpoint of realpolitik, (Turkey's position) did not let me down," adding that countries were "not ruled by emotions" but "mutual interests".

But she added: "Emotionally speaking, of course, I am sad.

"Not because my country has made peace with Saudi Arabia and that this issue is closing, but ultimately, no matter how fiercely we defended it, on a national basis, on a state basis, on a president basis ... now everything is starting to go back to the way it was, as if nothing had happened. I am inevitably disappointed about this."

Turkey, which is reeling from a fresh economic crisis and is searching for foreign investment and trade, has reached out to regional rivals including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in a televised interview on Thursday that some "concrete steps" would be taken to normalise relations.

Erdogan said in January he was planning a visit to Riyadh -- which would come at a critical moment for Turkey, where inflation is surging to over 50 percent.

The next hearing in the trial is scheduled for April 7.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1 Shelve (what's left of) Khashoggi, or the Khashoggi case?

Posted by Deadeye Bourbon3755 2022-04-01 00:03|| 2022-04-01 00:03|| Front Page Top

#2 The case. For some reason, after using the case to attack the House of Saud, Presodent Erdogan now feels a need to suck up to them.

Did they ever find Mr. Kashoggi’s body? I’ve managed to replace that mental file with much more interesting information.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-01 01:27|| 2022-04-01 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Did they ever find Mr. Kashoggi’s body?

Nope. Superbly done. Better than Hoffa. Almost like Hongwei but better. Puts the fear of death into those activist types.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-01 01:36|| 2022-04-01 01:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Mr. Khashoggi was no mere activist. He was a paid propagandist, which is no doubt why the Washington Post led the outcry in the name of freedom of the press.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-01 01:43|| 2022-04-01 01:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Legally the prosecutor may be right. K was a Saudi citizen who entered the embassy or consulate of his own accord. That place is officially Saudi territory. He was apparently assaulted there. What jurisdiction does Turkey have for trying someone for a crime allegedly performed by Saudis whose vitim was a Saudi, on Saudi territory?
Actually K had been exiled from Saudi Arabia and was not to return to it under penalty of death.
He returned, sort of, and was apparently put to death. It is not clear that this action broke Saudi law.
Enemies of the US and/or Saudi Arabia made a big fuss about this to harm relations and to help the
ayatollahs in Iran.
Would some country have the right to prosecute the US government or any official for the death of Epstein, or the death of that girl on january 6?
That seems unlikely to me. What's the difference between these cases?

Posted by Goober Choluque6459! 2022-04-01 03:58|| 2022-04-01 03:58|| Front Page Top

#6 SF said the motive for shelving the investigation into the murder appeared to be political.

So was the feigned outrage. He was a POS Qatari MB tool

Posted by Frank G 2022-04-01 06:47|| 2022-04-01 06:47|| Front Page Top

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