{"id":20459,"date":"2018-10-31T01:22:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20459"},"modified":"2018-10-31T01:22:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:22:30","slug":"is-saudi-arabia-protecting-whoever-ordered-khashoggis-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20459","title":{"rendered":"Is Saudi Arabia protecting whoever ordered Khashoggi&#8217;s killing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"84.6173633441\">\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/recep-tayyip-erdogan.html\"><span>Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/span><\/a>\u00a0has accused Saudi Arabia of stalling the investigation into the killing of Saudi journalist and government critic Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<p><span>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s chief prosecutor met his Turkish counterpart for a second time in Istanbul on Tuesday, after what the Turks called an unsatisfactory first meeting on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Erdogan called on Saudi Arabia&#8217;s chief prosecutor to find out who ordered the murder of Khashoggi and not spare &#8220;certain people&#8221; in his investigation. He also demanded information about where the journalist&#8217;s body is.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say the Saudi authorities have finally handed over the testimonies of 18 suspects who are being held in the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey is calling for their extradition, but the Saudis insist they will be tried at home.<\/p>\n<p>As the United States considers its options, and the European Union faces further calls to ban arms sales, will the Saudis budge?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Imran Khan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scott Lucas &#8211; professor of international politics at the University of Birmingham and specialist in US relations with countries in the Middle East<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Finkel &#8211; cofounder of P24, an initiative to promote independent journalism<\/p>\n<p>Joel Rubin &#8211; president, Washington Strategy Group<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s President\u00a0Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u00a0has accused Saudi Arabia of stalling the investigation into the killing of Saudi journalist and government critic Jamal Khashoggi. Saudi Arabia&#8217;s chief prosecutor met his Turkish counterpart for a second time in Istanbul on Tuesday, after what the Turks called an unsatisfactory first meeting on Monday. Erdogan called on Saudi Arabia&#8217;s chief&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20459","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\/20459","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=20459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}