Over the weekend, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a televised speech that Ankara had given recordings of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia, the United States, France, the UK and Germany.
In an interview with the Qatari-based media outlet Al Jazeera, Nazif Karaman, head of the investigation department at the Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah, shared some details from an audio tape that allegedly documented the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, inside the Saudi Consulate General in Istanbul.
âIâm suffocating⊠Take this bag off my head, Iâm claustrophobicâ â these were purportedly Khashoggiâs last words, Karaman said.
The senior Turkish journalist alleged that Khashoggi suffocated to death while a plastic bag was over his head, and, according to the recordings, the killing lasted for about seven minutes.
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Karaman then claimed that the alleged group of 15 hitmen who, as Turkish officials suggested, travelled to Istanbul one day ahead of the incident to kill the Saudi journalist, spent 15 minutes dismembering his body.
The Daily Sabah journalistâs claims come shortly after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Ankara had passed the recordings related to the case to Saudi Arabia, the United States, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.In late October, Istanbulâs prosecutor said in a statement that Khashoggiâs corpse had been dismembered and destroyed after he was strangled to death inside the Saudi consular premises in what appeared to be a premeditated murder.
The Saudi journalist disappeared on 2 October after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to fetch documents he needed in order to remarry. After weeks of concerns that he could have been killed inside the building and searches of the consulate by Turkish police, the Saudi prosecutor-general confirmed his death.
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Riyadh had consistently denied the royal familyâs involvement in the case, stressing that the crown prince was not aware of the plot and branded Khashoggiâs killing a ârogue operation.âSaudi authorities acknowledged that Khashoggi was killed in an altercation with people who met him at the consulate; 18 suspects have already been arrested as part of the ongoing investigation.
Ankara, for its part, is conducting an independent probe into the case, and alleges that Khashoggi was killed by a 15-member hit squad sent from Saudi Arabia.
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So, a Christian ordered the hit, Jews provided the intel, and the Muslim took care of it. And the demagogue who wants an Islamic state exposed it for leverage. Now the other leaders sheepishly retreat to examine their oil sources. Embarrassing for humanity,…. again. The multiple species at my bird feeder treat each other better. When they say, morality,.. what they mean is ‘our way’.
Well he was taught by Cohen after all. What did we expect? Make America great again, what a sick joke.
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