The deputy leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) warned against the consequences of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on the safety of performing Hajj rituals. He said that if the Muslims complained about the security of Hajj, it would not be the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.
He said in a speech in the capital Ankara that the discovery of the whereabouts of Khashoggi's body and the one who gave orders to kill him, is a religion in the neck of Saudi officials.
The new comments come after he warned two days ago that Saudi Arabia's failure to reveal the circumstances of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi would make it the only one in the region.
Qortulmush said the Saudi king should give instructions and orders to get the facts quickly in the case of Khashoggi, and that Saudi Arabia would never get rid of this "flaw" if it did not reveal the whole truth.
| Erdogan asks to reveal who sent Khashoggi killers and ordered them to kill (Getty Images) |
Questions and Claims
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he knows the order to kill journalist Khashoggi was issued by the highest levels of the Saudi government, but he does not think he was ever issued by King Salman bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud.
"Saudi Arabia still has many questions to answer about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi," Erdogan said in a Washington Post article on Friday night that the killing involved more than a group of security officials, calling for the release of those who sent the killers and ordering them to be killed.
It is noteworthy that the Turkish Public Prosecutor announced Wednesday in the city of Istanbul that Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the building of the Consulate General of Saudi Arabia in order to extract a document of citizenship on the second of October last.