Turkey might be pressuring Saudi Arabia over the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi to receive economic concessions from Riyadh, according to an American author and radio host.
President Tayyip Erdogan urged Riyadh on Friday to reveal the whereabouts of Khashoggi’s body as well as who ordered the murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October2.
Turkish prosecutors have also prepared an extradition request for 18 suspects from Saudi Arabia in the killing.
Khashoggi was a critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto ruler. He lived in a self-imposed exile in the United States, working as a columnist for the Washington Post.
Erdogan “is probably has damning information” about the prince,” Stephen Lendman told Press TV on Friday.
“What he’s doing is, I believe, is pressuring him [Erdogan] and King Salman, for financial aid that Turkey desperately needs; it’s economic is in very…