- Jamal Khashoggi was last seen October 2 walking to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul to obtain a document verifying his divorce so that he could marry his Turkish fiancée.
2. What does Turkey say happened? What does Saudi Arabia say happened?
- Turkey says that they have concrete evidence that Khashoggi was gruesomely murdered in the building.
- Saudi Arabia says that nothing happened and that he went out through a back exit.
3. Why would the Saudi Arabian government have motive to murder him?
- The Saudi government had motive to murder him because he fled Saudi Arabia out of fear of arrest from criticizing a prince. He resettled in the United States and is a contributor to the Washington Post criticizing the Saudi government, so they have motive to murder him.
4. How has Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tried to change Saudi Arabia?
- He has tried to change Saudi Arabia loosening restrictions on women driving and opening up cinemas in the Kingdom, but he’s also led a purge of opposition within his government and led a bloody war with Yemen that’s left tens of thousands dead.
5. How did Khashoggi come to work for The Washington Post instead of the Saudi paper Al Watan?
- He left Saudi Arabia because he of fear of arrest by the Crown Prince for criticizing the government. He settled down in the US and began contributing to The Washington Post so that he could criticize the Saudi government safely from afar.
6. Why did he visit the Saudi Consulate in Turkey?
- To file paperwork needed for his upcoming wedding to a Turkish woman, Hatice Cengiz.
7. The US is an ally of both. Why don't they get along?
- Saudi Arabia is engaged in an ongoing blockade of Qatar, one of Turkey’s allies, and Riyadh doesn’t agree with Turkey’s embrace of political Islam or its close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
8. How is the president responding to the issue? How are Senators responding?
- The president says that US-Saudi relations are excellent, but they are still trying to figure out the fate of the journalist through Saudi and Turkish investigators. Senators turned up the pressure on the Trump administration by requesting that the US impose sanctions on anyone who was responsible for the journalist’s disappearance. They called for the Global Magnitsky Act, which allows the US to sanction individuals who have committed human rights abuses anywhere in the world.
9. Why doesn't the president want to cause too much trouble with Saudi Arabia?
- He didn’t want to risk losing a lucrative weapons sale to Saudi Arabia.
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