One target of the Khashoggi murder was Turkey too

As the details of the Khashoggi murder emerge, it is also better understood that Khashoggi was not the event's only target. Khashoggi had, of course, ideas and approaches that angered and enraged his killers. He also had an influence and ability that could advise the opposition and play a key role in their possible organizing.

These may be thought a sufficient reason for his being killed. But a detail that was prepared and partially carried out during the killing suggests that the plan was also aimed at Türkiye, and even that striking Türkiye may have been a higher priority target than destroying Khashoggi.

The detail is the double prepared to take Khashoggi's place. The double, Mustafa Muhammed al-Madani, specially selected from Riyadh all the way to kill Khashoggi, whose height matches Khashoggi's height, was brought on the private plane that landed at the airport toward morning.

The only role of the double Madani in the 15-person execution team is to, in disguise, walk out at a certain time, showing himself openly to the cameras, go to Sultanahmet and disappear in a toilet he enters there. It was calculated that when he came out, having put on his own clothes that he carried with him in the toilet he entered, he would attract no attention at all.

This plan was also carried out. Had events developed otherwise, that is, had this great fraud not come to light, today we would be watching the repercussions of a scenario that Khashoggi, whose trail the whole world would be seeking, was last seen in a toilet in Sultanahmet and was abducted from there.

Have no doubt, in such a scenario, the role falling to the Saudi Arabian side would have been to go after what had happened to their world-renowned, respected, powerful intellectual citizen and to hold Türkiye to account for it. There would have been no corpse, but you can guess what message a Saudi Arabian citizen with the profile of Khashoggi, abducted on Turkish soil and of unknown fate, would have given to the intellectuals, investors and ordinary citizens of the Islamic world, who above all place hope in Türkiye.

You can be sure that the messages about "Türkiye as an untrustworthy country" had long since been prepared to be handed to the paid troll armies at their command.

Türkiye, for its part, would have had to defend itself in the shameful situation of having failed to protect this world-famous, respected person who vanished in a toilet.

Sultanahmet, too, was not chosen by coincidence as the place to disappear. Sultanahmet is Istanbul's most important symbol in the world, the most important place that no tourist can say "I have seen Istanbul" without visiting.

Would this plan still have worked had everything gone well? Of course Türkiye would have made many moves to prove the contrary, but by the time it explained itself, the perceptions that had taken its horse would have reached Üsküdar.

Let us say it again. According to the information that has emerged, the only thing they could not calculate was that Khashoggi's fiancée was waiting for him outside. Indeed, when Ms. Hatice made her presence known by asking the consulate officials about Khashoggi, at a time even earlier than when she decided that it was now necessary to call someone, it is understood that a panic had begun inside or at the consulate residence, and that from that hour on, hands and feet began to tangle with one another.

From this it is also understood that no backup plan had been made in case of being caught, and that everything had been planned to go smoothly.

And it is now clear that this plan went beyond destroying Khashoggi... Once the double was gone into, the attack that was to be made on Türkiye was exposed. For this reason Türkiye is not only obliged to fulfill its humanitarian responsibility in the Khashoggi murder. Beyond that, it is obliged to hold to account a terrible assassination that was premeditatedly intended against itself.

The crazy questions in Kılıçdaroğlu's mind

The whole world is watching the path Türkiye has followed in the Khashoggi murder matter with great appreciation and admiration. While Türkiye's handling of this event, which truly carries the potential of a full world crisis, by our President, in a word magnificent, is setting an example to the whole world, the performance Kılıçdaroğlu displays merely for the sake of being the opposition is also watched with astonishment.

We are at a point where one would say "at least don't do it here." But Kılıçdaroğlu cannot restrain himself, and even right here does what his nature demands. With what he does he carries water to the mill of those who committed the murder, and by opening even the established information about the murder to debate he gives material to the criminals' trolls.

And in his "poison questions in my mind" act, he lines up nonsensical questions one after another without asking, learning or knowing.

I was going to say nonsense admits no interpretation, but I could not pass over the contradiction he supposedly presented by mentioning my name. Because, at best, this crazy question shows very well how out of order the time-space setting in his mind is.

Starting from the fact that I informed all the relevant parties upon the phone call I received from Hatice Cengiz after 16:41, he asks why the killers who fled from Istanbul general aviation an hour later were not caught, and how they were able to flee. And when does he ask this, of course? 22 days later, when it has become clear that those people were truly killers. But within that hour was it known that these people were killers? No. Was it known that Khashoggi had been killed? No. Was it known that those people were connected to Khashoggi's disappearance? Of course not. Then on what grounds could a diplomatic delegation be detained based on information received within half an hour?

The time setting in Kılıçdaroğlu's mind may deem this possible, but he evidently cannot calculate that the information he acquired 20 days later was not available 20 days earlier.

Frankly, in the first assessment, measures could have been taken against Khashoggi's being abducted from the airport, which was the possibility of abduction being focused on. Were these measures taken? They were. The killers' exit footage was in fact shown on the screens. Their bags and persons were searched both with electronic devices and by hand. Khashoggi was not with them anyway, and there was no package that could contain his parts. Beyond that, what remains for Kılıçdaroğlu is only talk for the sake of talk, so that the opposition bag may fill.