Key moments around the murder of Jamal Khashoggi
Key moments around the murder of Jamal Khashoggi
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who wrote critically the kingdom's policies and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was assassinated at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul earlier this month. Turkish officials say that a team of 15 men tortured, murdered and dismembered the writer, while Saudi Arabia He says he died in a "fist fight".
Here are some key moments in the murder of the Washington Post columnist:
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BEFORE ITS DISAPPEARANCE
-September 2017: The Post publishes the first column of Khashoggi in his newspaper, in which the former member of the royal court and a long-time journalist writes about a self-imposed exile in the United States for the rise of Prince Mohammed. His next columns criticize the prince and the direction of the kingdom.
-Sep. 28, 2018: More than a year after the Post published its first column, Khashoggi visits the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul, looking for documents to get married. He is later told to return on October 2, says his fiancé Hatice Cengiz. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that a plan or "road map" was designed to kill Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia during this time.
-Sep. 29: Khashoggi travels to London and speaks at a conference.
-Oct. 1: Khashoggi returns to Istanbul. Around 4:30 p.m., a three-person Saudi team arrives in Istanbul on a scheduled flight, checks into their hotels and then visits the consulate, according to Erdogan. The Turkish president says that another group of consulate officials travel to a forest on the outskirts of Istanbul and to the nearby city of Yalova on a "reconnaissance" trip.
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THE DAY OF ITS DISAPPEARANCE
-3: 28 a.m. October 2: A private plane arrives at Istanbul Ataturk Airport with some members of what the Turkish media will call a 15-member Saudi "assassination squad". Other team members arrive on two commercial flights in the afternoon. Erdogan says the team includes security and intelligence officials from Saudi Arabia and a forensic expert. They meet at the Saudi Arabian Consulate. One of the first things they do is dismantle a hard drive connected to the consulate's camera system, says the president.
--11: 50 a.m. Khashoggi is called to confirm his appointment at the consulate later that day, says Erdogan.
-1: 14 p.m .: The surveillance images were subsequently leaked to the Turkish media and show Khashoggi entering the main entrance of the Saudi Arabian Consulate. There is no material made public that shows him leaving. His fiancee waits outside, walking for hours.
-3: 07 p.m .: surveillance images show vehicles with diplomatic plates leaving the Saudi Arabian Consulate for the home of the Consul General about 2 kilometers away.
--5: 50 p.m .: Khashoggi's fiancée alerts the authorities, saying that he may have been forcibly detained inside the consulate or that something bad may have happened to him, according to Erdogan.
-7 p.m .: A private plane from Saudi Arabia transports six members of the alleged Saudi squadron from Istanbul to Cairo, and the next day returns to Riyadh.
-11 p.m .: seven members of the alleged Saudi squadron go on another private plane to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which returns the next day to Riyadh. Two others depart on commercial flights.
- Erdogan confirms the reports that a "double body", a man who wears clothes, glasses and Khashoggi's beard, leaves the consulate building for Riyadh with another person on a scheduled flight that same day.
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INITIAL REACTION
-Oct. 3: Khashoggi's fiancee and the Post are made public with her disappearance. Saudi Arabia says that Khashoggi visited the consulate and left soon after. Turkish officials suggest that Khashoggi could still be at the consulate. Prince Mohammed tells Bloomberg: "We have nothing to hide."
-Oct. 4: Saudi Arabia says in its state news agency that the consulate is carrying out "follow-up and coordination procedures with Turkish local authorities to discover the circumstances of the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi after he left the consulate building".
-Oct. 5: The Post prints a blank column in your newspaper in solidarity with Khashoggi, entitled: "A voice that is missing".
-Oct. 6: The Post, citing unnamed Turkish officials, reports that Khashoggi may have been killed at the consulate in a "pre-planned murder" by a Saudi team.
-Oct. 7: A friend of Khashoggi tells the AP that the authorities told him that the writer was murdered at the consulate. The consulate rejects what he calls "baseless accusations."
-Oct. 8: Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Turkey is summoned for the disappearance and alleged murder of Khashoggi.
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LOST PIECES
-Oct. 9: Turkey says it will search the Saudi Consulate as an image of Khashoggi entering the surface of diplomatic posts.
-Oct. 10: Surveillance footage of Khashoggi and the alleged Saudi squad that killed him was leaked. Khashoggi's fiancee asks for help from President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump.
-Oct. 11: The Turkish media describe the Saudi squad that includes royal guards, intelligence officers, soldiers and an autopsy expert. Trump believes that the disappearance of Khashoggi is a "bad situation" and promises to get to the bottom of it.
-Oct. 12: Trump again agrees to find out what happened to Khashoggi.
-Oct. 13: An official government newspaper reports that Turkish officials have an audio recording of the alleged killing of Khashoggi on his Apple Watch, but the details of the report are questionable.
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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
-Oct. 14: Trump says that "we are going to get to the bottom, and there will be severe punishment" if Saudi Arabia is involved. The kingdom responds with a scorching attack on those who threaten it, as the manager of a Saudi-owned satellite news channel suggests that the country could retaliate through its oil exports. The Saudi stock market sinks up to 7 percent at any given time.
-Oct. 15: A Turkish forensic team enters and searches the Saudi Consulate, an extraordinary fact, since diplomatic posts are considered a sovereign territory. After a call with Saudi King Salman, Trump suggests that the "rebel killers" could be responsible for Khashoggi's alleged murder. Trump says that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to the Middle East for the case. Meanwhile, business leaders say they will not attend an economic summit in the kingdom that was a creation of Prince Mohammed.
-Oct. 16: A senior Turkish official tells the AP that "certain evidence" was found at the Saudi Arabian Consulate proving that Khashoggi was killed there. Pompeo arrives at meetings in Saudi Arabia with King Salman and Prince Mohammed. Meanwhile, Trump compares the case with the appointment of now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing, saying: "Here we go again with the guilty until proven innocent."
-Oct. 17: Pompeo meets with the President of Turkey and the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Turkish capital, Ankara. Turkish police search the official residence of the Saudi consul general in Istanbul and conduct a second sweep of the consulate.
-Oct. 18: A filtered surveillance photograph shows a member of Prince Mohammed's entourage who entered the consulate just before Khashoggi disappeared there.
-Oct. 20: Saudi Arabia recognizes for the first time that Khashoggi was killed in the consulate, alleging that he was killed in a "fist fight". The claim attracts the immediate skepticism of the western allies of the kingdom, particularly in the United States Congress.
-Oct. 22: A report says that a member of Prince Mohammed's entourage made four calls to the king's office at the time Khashoggi was killed. The police register a vehicle belonging to the Saudi consulate parked in an underground garage in Istanbul.
- October 23: Erdogan says that Saudi officials killed Khashoggi after planning his death for days, demanding that Saudi Arabia reveal the identity of all involved.
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