{"id":19316,"date":"2018-10-21T17:23:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T17:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19316"},"modified":"2018-10-21T17:23:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T17:23:24","slug":"erdogan-turkey-will-reveal-naked-truth-over-khashoggi-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19316","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan: Turkey will reveal ‘naked truth’ over Khashoggi killing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/a> has promised to reveal the “naked truth” over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi<\/a>, saying that he will make a new statement on the case on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

His comments on Sunday are likely to increase speculation that Ankara may be about to reveal some of the results of its investigations into the killing of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, who disappeared after entering the Saudi consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul on October 2<\/p>\n

On Saturday, after weeks of denying any involvement in Khashoggi’s disappearance, Saudi Arabia<\/a> said the 59-year-old, a prominent critic of the powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman<\/a> (MBS),\u00a0died in a fistfight at the consulate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I will make my statement about this issue on Tuesday at the party group meeting,” Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul.<\/p>\n

“We are looking for justice here and this will be revealed in all its naked truth, not through some ordinary steps but in all its naked truth,” Erdogan added.<\/p>\n

Erdogan has remained largely silent on the case, although Turkey’s pro-government newspapers have released information detailing a 15-member team that purportedly arrived in Istanbul to confront Khashoggi at the consulate.<\/p>\n

“Why 15 people came … why 18 people were detained … These things have to be told in detail,” Erdogan said.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor on Saturday said 18 people were arrested in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n

Tuesday deadline<\/h2>\n

“This is the first time that such a senior official – the president – has put essentially a deadline as to this ongoing to and fro of different narrations and leaks,” said\u00a0Al Jazeera’s Jamal Elshayyal, reporting from Istanbul.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hours after the Saudi admission on Saturday, Omer Celik, spokesperson for Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party<\/a>), said Turkey was not “accusing anyone in advance, but we don’t accept anything to remain covered [up]”.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Numan Kurtulmus, AK Party’s deputy head, promised Turkey<\/a> “would not abstain from sharing with the world” evidence of Khashoggi’s death and will never “allow a cover-up” of what he called an “ugly, frightening, inhumane case”.<\/p>\n

Turkish officials say the authorities have an audio recording purportedly documenting Khashoggi’s killing inside the consulate.<\/p>\n

Pro-government Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak, citing the audio, said his torturers cut off his fingers during an interrogation and later beheaded him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE:
\n Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to reveal the “naked truth” over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying that he will make a new statement on the case on Tuesday. His comments on Sunday are likely to increase speculation that Ankara may be about to reveal some of the results of its…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19316","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\/19316","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=19316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}