{"id":18602,"date":"2018-10-15T23:24:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T23:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18602"},"modified":"2018-10-15T23:24:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T23:24:11","slug":"khashoggi-why-did-it-take-so-long-for-saudi-to-open-its-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18602","title":{"rendered":"Khashoggi: Why did it take so long for Saudi to open its doors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"85.2615117289\">\n<p>Turkish police investigators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/jamal-khashoggi-case-latest-updates-181010133542286.html\">have entered<\/a> the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, nearly two weeks after the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed search of the consulate on Monday followed a phone call between Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Salman and Turkey&#8217;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during which the two leaders stressed the importance of a joint investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The king thanked Erdogan for welcoming the Saudi proposal for the joint group and said no one could undermine their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Riyadh denies the Saudi writer was murdered, his body dismembered and removed by a 15-man hit squad, which flew into Istanbul on the day he disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>As international pressure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/trump-vows-severe-punishment-saudi-arabia-killed-khashoggi-181013161815649.html\">intensifies<\/a> for answers from the Saudis, US President Donald Trump is sending his top diplomat, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to meet King Salman.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why has it taken so long for the Saudis to open their doors?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Imran Khan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nihad Awad &#8211; Executive director, Council on American-Islamic Relations<\/p>\n<p>Steven Schneebaum &#8211; International lawyer<\/p>\n<p>Chis Phillips &#8211; Former head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office in the UK<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish police investigators have entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, nearly two weeks after the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The proposed search of the consulate on Monday followed a phone call between Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Salman and Turkey&#8217;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during which the two leaders stressed the importance of a joint investigation.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}