Erdogan says he cannot understand U.S. 'silence' over Jamal Khashoggi murder
Source: AFP-JIJI
AFP-JIJI
FEB 4, 2019
ISTANBUL - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday accused the United States of maintaining a silence on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who killed by a Saudi hit team in the kingdoms Istanbul consulate.
I cannot understand Americas silence.
We want everything to be clarified because there is an atrocity, there is a murder, Erdogan told an interview with state-run TRT television.
The Khashoggi murder is not an ordinary one.
Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor and Saudi regime critic, was murdered at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.
Read more: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/04/world/crime-legal-world/erdogan-says-cannot-understand-u-s-silence-jamal-khashoggi-murder/#.XFdxOVxKjIU
Vinca
(50,304 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)I feel there's something sinister about it on the part of this administration.
Roy Rolling
(6,933 posts)But the murder occurred on Turkish soil. Is that not a crime in Turkey? Why has Turkey not charged anyone with a crime yet?
Why is Erdagon looking to America to solve a murder that occurred there, in his country?
rpannier
(24,338 posts)Embassy grounds are considered to be within the country of the embassy.
The Saudi Embassy is Saudi territory and Turkey cannot just force their way through the gate.
This is why so many North Korean defectors try to make it over the walls of the South Korean embassy in Beijing. The Chinese can't get them and return them
Roy Rolling
(6,933 posts)My point rejects that distinction when Erdagon complains of a murder in his backyard. Regardless of the diplomatic situation, he is free to make it a big issue of the murder and not fault the U.S.
But your point is valid in a civilized world, an embassy is not subject to a host country's jurisdiction.
MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)Botany
(70,585 posts)n/t
Blarneyman
(14 posts)Be it Khashoggi's murder or Putin's meddling, the administration's modus operandi appears to be "Shhhhh!"
keithbvadu2
(36,917 posts)Trump, August 2015: I make $40 million, $50 million from Saudi Arabia. I like them a lot.
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Midnight Writer
(21,802 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)of this Saudi money people. It is all about the Ad revenue.
debsy
(530 posts)...but we haven't heard a peep about this atrocity for months now. MSM are in the horse race frenzy for a campaign season that should be many months away. And we fall for it every time.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)the Andrus Family f----ed up PBS after the ADM scandal. Put a end to any real Investigative Reporting.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Name ONE other US president who would have remained silent on this.
If you're having a hard time, it's because the answer is NO ONE.
dalton99a
(81,590 posts)hay rick
(7,640 posts)raging moderate
(4,309 posts)Is any group working on a plan for a demonstration or a boycott or something? Or could we write lots of letters to somewhere or somebody?
procon
(15,805 posts)why Trump isn't working for America's best interest.
paleotn
(17,963 posts)In Trumpmerica, business before country. Always.
Lithos
(26,404 posts)Same, same...
sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)Which Dem House committee should look into this?
comradebillyboy
(10,175 posts)What a sad state of affairs. But even Trump, Jared and Pompeo can't save the Saudis from their own self destructive tendancies in the long run.
struggle4progress
(118,350 posts)and the story will come out if the Khashoggi story gets too much attention
duforsure
(11,885 posts)And jared and trump were probably getting payoffs from that and their arms deals they were given to personally profit from. If Khashoggi was getting close to exposing them for it, and was a threat to trump and jared , this could have been done for trump as a favor for him, and he may have known all about what the Prince was doing before it happened. Now they want it covered up. Did intel tell him before the killing? They need to investigate this further.
marble falls
(57,239 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Which will continue unless and until we change course on letting propaganda run rampant.