The Irony of Turkey's Crusade for a Missing Journalist
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has strangled the free press, but his country has emerged as the source of grisly information about Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance.
On October 2, Jamal Khashoggi was seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. The Saudi journalist and dissident hasn’t been seen since then. But the grisly details of what happened to the columnist for The Washington Post have come mostly from unnamed Turkish security officials, leaving few doubts about Khashoggi’s fate.
The story of Khashoggi’s disappearance has gripped Western capitals and the media, not to mention Saudi Arabia’s many allies and adversaries in these places. One note of irony in this story is that and , jailing no fewer than , a number matched only by Egypt.
