Voices Of The Middle East And North Africa

On 2 October, Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi regime Insider and self-exiled critic of Mohamad Bin Salman walked into his country's consulate in Istanbul and never came out. After initial denials and claims that he had left the consulate shortly after arriving, Saudi Arabia admitted that the Mr Khashoggi was dead and it was some rouge elements who committed the murder. Soon after the disappearance of Mr Khashoggi, media outlets close to Mr Erdogan started leaking out details that Mr Khashoggi had been tortured, dismembered and disposed of by an elite hit squad sent from Saudi Arabia Turkey's authoritarian leader Recep Tayyib Erdogan - himself one of the biggest jailers of dissidents and journalists - promised to name those involved in this heinous crime, but so far has not released any names. In a recent op ed in the Washington post, Mr. Erdogan wrote, "we know the order to kill Khashoggi came from the highest levels of the Saudi government.” He added “I have no reason to believe that his murder reflected Saudi Ar