Turkish Minister of Justice: The Ministry will give its opinion on the Public Prosecution’s request to transfer the Khashoggi case to Saudi Arabia

Bozdag said: “We will send our opinion today, in our ministerial capacity, and we will give a positive opinion on the transfer of this trial and the case” to Saudi Arabia.

It is noteworthy that the Turkish Public Prosecutor requested, yesterday, Thursday, the suspension of the trial in absentia of 26 defendants in the case of Khashoggi’s assassination in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, and the transfer of the trial to Saudi Arabia, pointing to the need to ask the Ministry of Justice to express its opinion on the transfer of the trial to Saudi Arabia.

In the 117-page indictment prepared by the Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office, Ahmed bin Muhammad al-Asiri and Saud al-Qahtani, charged with carrying out the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and giving necessary instructions to the other defendants, are separately charged.

A second indictment was prepared by the Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office, against 6 Saudi fugitives in connection with the Khashoggi murder. The court approved the indictment, which demanded severe life sentences for two of the defendants, and imprisonment for up to 5 years for four of them. This brings the number of defendants in the case to 26.