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Erdogan urges world to keep Khashoggi case on agenda

Folks, this close-up highlights Erdogan’s drip-feeding that backfired with Trump and Salman taking the wind out of his sail. The president (of Turkey) is back holding the can as the world’s prolific oppressor of his nation’s journalists, its judges and its lawyers.

It also clarifies the settlement, done and dusted, between Khashoggi’s kin and the Saudi monarch; and the old leveller within the doctrine where ‘The law of equality is prescribed and if any remission is made to the brother of the slain, grant him a reasonable demand.’

That said, given Trump’s support of Salman from day one, others in the background are aware they are looking a tad awkward, because Trump had always implied that money is a higher calling and these summits are, a bigger leveller!

As an aside, folks, Erdogan may be in the crosshairs of a vengeful Saudi, given the Ottomans decapitated Salman’s ancestor two centuries ago, where in the fall of 1818 the Saudi monarch was brought to Istanbul in chains, displayed in a cage to cheering crowds outside the Hagia Sophia, and his head chopped off!