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by Burak Bekdil • October 24,
2018 at 5:00 am
- Turkey, pursuing its
own Islamist agenda and trying to rival Saudi influence in the
Sunni world, is just too happy to have discredited the Wahhabi
royals.
- Turkey's message to
the Western world was: See the difference between our peaceful
Islamism and rogue-state Islamism? Stop discrediting us for
our democratic deficit -- also, presumably, for
"only" imprisoning more than 100 journalists there.
Turkey,
pursuing its own Islamist agenda and trying to rival Saudi
influence in the Sunni world, is just too happy to have discredited
the Wahhabi royals in the wake of the Jamal Khashoggi killing.
Pictured: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (left) greets Saudi
Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz on November 15, 2015 in Antalya,
Turkey. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
It looked like a first-class spy thriller: A
prominent writer enters the Saudi consulate in Istanbul but never
leaves the building. Saudi officials said he left the building but
could not offer footage from security cameras. When they did, the
image was of a dark-haired body-double dressed in the writer's
clothes.
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