Turkey and Saudi Arabia: Engaged in a Journalist-Snatching Alliance?
A Saudi journalist’s disappearance challenges fragile Middle Eastern pragmatism.
By James M. Dorsey, October 4, 2018
Many fear that prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared in Istanbul, was kidnapped. It would not be the first time that Saudi Arabia has forcibly repatriated its critics.
A Saudi detention or nabbing of Mr. Khashoggi in Istanbul without at least tacit Turkish cooperation would deeply embarrass Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Saudi-Turkish cooperation in Syria helps Turkey create a sphere of influence in areas of Syria near Turkey’s border.
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