Erdogan’s imminent political pilgrimage and business with Khashoggi’s case.
The President of the Republic of Turkey is preparing the necessary preparations for the performance of political pilgrimage rites in Saudi Arabia and the exploitation of the murder case of “Jamal Khashoggi.
As expected, Ankara closed the trial of critical Saudi journalist Jamal Khashgechi, who was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, in order to get closer to Riyadh, closing the case. Sent to Saudi Arabia to investigate; Where the murder warrant was originally issued by its court.
In such an atmosphere, after years of tensions following the assassination of Jamal Khashgechi, Erdogan is planning to travel to Saudi Arabia and meet with Saudi officials to resolve existing disputes. The Turkish president’s attempt to get closer to Saudi Arabia, after its success in the project of reducing tensions with the UAE and then Egypt, comes at a time when there are many signs of normalization of relations with the Zionist regime. All of which means that Erdogan must resort to actors with whom he has previously had strong differences and animosity in order to maintain his power in the political arena.
Rai Al-Youm newspaper published a note in this regard that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems to be making engineered preparations for a political pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, and sooner or later, at the previous invitation of King Abdullah II of Jordan, On a trip that was previously postponed, travel to safety.
Erdogan’s political pilgrimage
Accordingly, reports from Ankara indicate that Erdogan intends to perform Umrah in Mecca before the end of the holy month of Ramadan. This is what the Turkish Foreign Ministry’s diplomatic staff calls the policy of calming the situation, balancing and rebalancing interests and diversifying it. Especially after the numerous pressures created by the military crisis and the war in Ukraine in the Black Sea and off the coast of Turkey.