Slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi | Prosecutor seeks finish to trial in Turkey
The prosecutor’s request comes as Turkey has been making an attempt to normalise its relationship with Saudi Arabia, which reached an all-time low following Khashoggi’s grisly killing
The prosecutor’s request comes as Turkey has been making an attempt to normalise its relationship with Saudi Arabia, which reached an all-time low following Khashoggi’s grisly killing
The prosecutor within the case in opposition to 26 Saudi nationals charged within the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi made a shock request on March 31 that their trial in absentia be suspended and the case be transferred to Saudi Arabia.
The panel of judges made no ruling on the prosecutor’s request however determined {that a} letter be despatched to Turkey’s Justice Ministry looking for its opinion on the doable switch of the file to the Saudi judicial authorities, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Trial was adjourned to a later date.
The prosecutor’s request comes as Turkey has been making an attempt to normalise its relationship with Saudi Arabia, which reached an all-time low following Khashoggi’s grisly killing.
His slaying on the consulate additionally sparked worldwide condemnation and forged a cloud of suspicion over Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Khashoggi, a Saudi nationwide who was a United States resident, had walked into his nation’s consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, for an appointment to select up paperwork that might permit him to marry his Turkish fiancee. He by no means walked out.
Turkish authorities stated he was killed by a staff Saudi brokers who had flown to Turkey to fulfill Khashoggi contained in the consulate. Those on trial in absentia embrace two former aides of the Prince.
The defendants all left Turkey, and Saudi Arabia rejected Turkish calls for for his or her extradition. Some of the lads have been placed on trial in Riyadh behind closed doorways. Khashoggi’s relations later introduced that they had forgiven his killers. Prior to his killing, Khashoggi had written critically of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince in columns for the Washington Post.