Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused Saudi Arabia of committing a massacre by sending 11 officials to Turkey. Investigations revealed that the number was 25, following the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at his consulate in Istanbul on October 2.
Erdogan said in a speech during a Ramadan event in Istanbul that he had not yet issued any voice or position from Riyadh to the staff sent by Saudi Arabia to Istanbul to carry out the murder of Khashoggi.
Erdogan asked the Saudi authorities about justice in the Khashoggi case, saying: "Where are your justice?" He pointed out that the Saudis had reassured the Turkish authorities and pledged to do what was necessary. "They told us we will do what we need, do not worry."
He criticized the West, saying that his country failed to test the truth in the case of Khashoggi's assassination, and that it always outweighs its interests on human values, and its options are always heading towards oil and the dollar.
Commenting on the recent Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, he said that Israel derives its strength from the silence of the international community and reached the limit of bombarding the media and relief agencies and aimed at the Anatolia Agency because it does not want anyone to tell the world the truth of its actions.
"We did not hear anyone's voice when the Austrian presidential election was canceled two years later," Erdogan said. "But our mere objection to the results of the local elections in Istanbul bothered the West."