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Erdogan Pressures Saudi Crown Prince on Journalist Murder Anniversary

Dorian Jones

   ISTANBUL - With the first anniversary of the murder of Saudi journalist
   Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul approaching,
   Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is pledging to "continue to shed
   light" on the killing.

   Khashoggi, a reporter for the U.S.-based Washington Post newspaper, was
   a staunch critic of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
   The journalist's murder one year ago Wednesday remains a focal point of
   tension between Erdogan and Salman.

   International human rights groups, Khashoggi's fiancee, Hatice Cengiz,
   and United Nations special rapporteur, Agnes Callamard, will be joined
   Wednesday by Yasin Aktay, a member of Erdogan's inner circle, at a
   commemoration outside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul to mark
   Khashoggi's murder.

   On Oct. 2, 2018, Khashoggi entered the consulate to collect papers for
   his forthcoming marriage. He never left the building alive.

   According to secret recordings by Turkish intelligence, the Saudi
   journalist was suffocated with a plastic bag by a hit team sent from
   Saudi Arabia. An international investigation led by the U.N.'s
   Callamard concluded the journalist's body was dismembered and disposed
   of at an unknown location.

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