The world that killed Khashoggi

Yesterday was the 2nd anniversary of the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Istanbul Consulate General. The door that he passed through together with his fiancée Hatice Cengiz in order to build a new life for himself became his door of exit from this life and of entry into his eternal life. Behind that door, in only ten minutes, his life was ended by an arrogant will seized by the illusion of power, like Nimrod and Pharaoh, to kill whomever it wished and keep alive whomever it wished.

At the end of the 2 years that have passed, there is in fact no unanswered question, or question that cannot be answered, about the incident. Why the incident was committed, what happened behind that door, who came to Turkey and with what purpose, that the incident was decided in advance and planned and carried out in all its details. These matters have been sufficiently clarified with the data at hand.

However, all the data needs to be decided upon by a fair court, and for that the suspects need to be brought before a fair court. Yet all of the perpetrators are currently in Saudi Arabia (SA), that is, the usual suspects as the instigators of the murder are in a place where they dominate the court.

The court dominated by the usual suspects of the crime, for its part, is trying to save the criminals from the Turkish judiciary by saying that it will conduct this trial itself. No one doubts that the verdict given by the SA court is far, very far, from ensuring justice in the Khashoggi murder. The court was established and run not to try but to acquit the usual suspects. The indictment is written almost in the language of a defense, and the whole process was operated to cover up the responsibility of the usual suspects for the incident and to acquit them.

In fact, there was never any doubt from the start that it would go this way. That is why we have said from the beginning that the SA courts could not give a fair verdict in the Khashoggi murder.

Since the incident took place within the borders of the Republic of Turkey, the right and responsibility of jurisdiction on this matter belong to Turkey. The Turkish judiciary has no prejudice against anyone. In the case that began to be heard at the beginning of July, even the lawyers that SA neglected to hire for the suspects or defendants were hired by Turkish justice itself, in accordance with the rules of the CMUK.

In the case, which is being conducted in the most transparent manner, a supplementary indictment adding 6 people was subsequently prepared last week. Some of those added were the team that came a few days after the murder and cleaned all the evidence at the scene of the murder using chemicals. This detail is very important, because one of the claims of the SA authorities, however implausible, was that the murder was committed without the knowledge of the competent SA authorities. With the data at hand there is nothing tenable in this claim, but even if it were accepted for a moment, how are we to believe that the cleaning team, which came a few days after the incident before the eyes of the world and did nothing other than obscure all the evidence plainly related to the murder, also worked without the knowledge of the SA authorities?

Yet all the activities of this cleaning team are part of the murder, and a very correct conclusion will be reached through this. In that respect the supplementary indictment of the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has been very much on target.

Meanwhile it must be said that the Khashoggi murder is a test for the whole world and has also laid bare, like a mirror, the humanity report card of the whole world order. In the two years that have passed, the motives behind the positions taken by different sections of the world in the face of this incident have been recorded.

First of all, the Khashoggi murder is not an event that resulted only in Khashoggi's death. It is a murder that exposes the situation of the hundreds of thousands of people who, like him, are every day unjustly, cruelly, mercilessly killed, silenced, taken hostage and tortured. It exposes how the opportunistic-pragmatic stance of the so-called modern-civilized-democratic world that stayed silent over the Khashoggi murder encourages such murders and crimes against humanity, which have become routine for the regimes of the Middle East.

Each of the 3000 civilian, unarmed, innocent people massacred in a single day at Rabia Square in Egypt, which drove Muhammad Morsi to death in a courtroom before the eyes of the world, was a Khashoggi. How can we be surprised at the silence this world, which stayed silent over them for the sake of cheap, day-to-day calculations of interest, has shown toward the Khashoggi murder?

Khashoggi is not the first person to fall victim to murder in this way in SA because of his political stance and thoughts, and according to some attempts and cases that we learned of later, he is not the last either. Such murders have become the routine of an order, and these routines until now have not even been subject to decent criticism in the world.

The perpetrators of the same murder present themselves to the world as representatives of moderate Islam and their own unarmed, helpless, oppressed opponents as representatives of extremist, political, even terrorist Islam, and this launch finds a serious audience in this so-called civilized world. The eager customers of this hypocritical propaganda are without doubt accomplices to the Khashoggi murder, with all its savagery, horror and baseness.

The Western world, which does not even call coups against democracy in the Middle East coups, carried out with the encouragement and support of Khashoggi's murder suspects, and which tries to cook its eggs on the fires they lit in Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Libya, is an accomplice not to one but to hundreds of thousands of Khashoggi murders.

Justice for Khashoggi will therefore require the trial of this world order.