Turkey wants Khashoggi killing suspects extradited
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey on Friday intensified its demands for Saudi Arabia to extradite 18 suspects in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The Istanbul chief prosecutor’s office submitted a request for Saudi Arabia to hand over the suspects in the killing, and the Turkey’s Foreign Ministry will formally notify the kingdom, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
The Saudi government has said it arrested and would itself punish 18 people for what it described as a rogue operation by officials who killed Khashoggi in the consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.
Some of those implicated are close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s heir apparent whose condemnation of the killing failed to ease suspicions that he was involved.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Turkey would reveal more evidence about the killing but was not in any rush to do so.
Hours after Erdogan’s speech, Khashoggi’s fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, told Haberturk, a Turkish news channel, about her pain since he disappeared.
She described how she had accompanied Khashoggi, 59, to the consulate and waited outside while, she thought, he was getting paperwork for their planned marriage. He never came out.
“I still have questions that I cannot answer,” Cengiz said.