Assassination of Arabian journalist: what next?

An article by President R.T. Erdogan in "Washington Post" of November 3 vectored processes around a mysterious death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Note that his body has not yet been discovered after his assassination on October 2 at the Consulate-General of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul.

Why did Mr. Erdogan consider it appropriate to write an article for a newspaper where Khashoggi was a contributor? It should be remembered that over the past month the Turkish President every day openly reminded Saudi Arabia of the necessity to detect those guilty of journalist"s death ?

Why does he write the following: "I cannot believe that it was king Salman who ordered to kill Khashoggi? Hence, there is no need in claiming that this crime is reflective of Saudi Arabia"s official policy"?

The point is that two days before the issue of the Erdogan"s article the Attorney General"s Office in Istanbul declared that "discussions with Attorney General of Saudi Arabia due to Khashoggi"s murder yielded no results and the counterpart is unwilling to collaborate."

Following 35-days long Saudi Arabia"s allegations that "he entered and went out of the Consulate; you can institute a search; there was an issue at the Consulate and he died after a fight", etc. The Attorney-General"s Office ofIstantul stated that "the murder was prearranged". There is no doubt that the journalist was murdered, so it"d be natural to ask "Who ordered to kill him?"

In this respect the fact that the Turkish President gave his final reply to a question "Who did not kill?" in a newspaper where Jamal Khashoggi was a contributor looks meaningfully and raises numerous questions.

The first question is that if there is a crime of international response in a consulate mission of a foreign country, why a head of the state where the crime has been committed is openly seeking to insulate the country represented by this consulate from criminal act?

If it is talked about "right", there is no doubt that the question is about policy and diplomacy only. The question is not about the crime having been sanctioned by the king, prince or other authorized representative. In considering it is prerogative of a public prosecutor to call a crime suspect and it is court"s exclusive right to call somebody else innocent; all other claims to the "right" are politically motivated.

The mentioned article published in "Washington Post" emphasizes that "no crime of this sort could have been committed in any NATO member-country", it is evident that a crime emanating from Saudi Arabia is targeting on a NATO member-country. A question arises: what sanctions are going to be imposed by the US-led NATO member-countries on Saudi Arabia? However, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo"s last statement says that "strategic partnership with Riyadh will be continued" (no military-economic relations, including sales of weapons, will suffer).

The main reason of Saudi king"s sheltering by today"s Turkish authorities (of intertest is the fact no name of crown prince is mentioned in the said article) is explained as being due to Mr. Erdogan"s profound religious-moral attachment to Riyadh. Note that problems between Ankara and Riyadh that arose after Abdul Fattah Sisi"s "s coming to power in Egypt in July 2013 increasingly aggravated due to the isolation of Qatar by Gulf countries in summer 2017. It is well known that Ankara became enraged when Saudi SArabia rendered $ 100 mln worth aid to the terrorist organization PYD/YPG in Syria. The reason why Erdogan is doing his utmost to shelter Saudi Arabian king from Khashoggi"s assassination lies in personal relations between the two leaders (it is rumored that several years ago the king donated $ 100 mln for the Youth fund of Erdogan"s son).

Is another reason of Erdogan"s open support to the king that Turkey which has been removed from Gulf"s processes, is willing to join the game? This version is not ruled out, but it is well-known that final decisions over the Gulf are adopted by Washington, not monarchic regimes of the Gulf countries.

What did a telephone conversation that took place two days before between Presidents Erdogan and Trump mean? What was the purpose of parties" agreement about a Paris meeting in terms of processes going on since earlier November and how should it be analyzed? Has Turker re-joined the game on the eve of starting sanctions against Iran?

From now on it"d be appropriate to retrace not Riyadh"s activity but that of Istanbul"s Attorney-General...