Turkey’s President Erdogan compares Mohamed Morsi’s dramatic courtroom death in Egypt to the brutal killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi
- Erdogan said Mohamed Morsi’s death in a Cairo court should not be forgotten
- Turkish president compared ex-Egyptian leader’s demise to Khashoggi’s killing
- Recep Erdogan previously said Morsi’s death was ‘suspicious’ and not natural
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has compared the dramatic courtroom death of Mohamed Morsi to Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal murder in the Saudi consulate.
Turkey’s leader today said Morsi’s sudden collapse during a court appearance in Cairo should not be forgotten – as Khashoggi’s killing should not.
Saudi columnist Khashoggi was killed at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last October sparking a major international outcry.
Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi fell ill and died in court as he faced retrial in Cairo on Monday. Erdogan yesterday accused Egyptian authorities of failing to help his ally and claimed he ‘did not die of natural causes’.
President Recep Erdogan speaking yesterday about Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing in Istanbul. A UN report recommended an investigation into the possible role of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, citing ‘credible evidence’
Morsi greeting press members as he stands behind the bars during his trial on charges of espionage on behalf of Qatar at the Police Academy in Cairo
‘In the same way that we didn’t allow the murder of the late Jamal Khashoggi to be forgotten, we will never allow Morsi’s drama to be forgotten,’ Erdogan said today.
He added his country is determined to ensure that Morsi’s dramatic death in a Cairo courtroom is not forgotten.
Erdogan spoke during a meeting with a group of foreign journalists a day after he claimed that Morsi did not die of natural causes but was killed.
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi who was killed after entering his country’s consulate in Istanbul on October 2
The Turkish leader, who is a fierce critic of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, added that he believed that the United Nations should take up ‘Morsi’s suspicious death’.
In Cairo, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry lashed out at Erdogan, saying the latest stream of his remarks reveal the depth of his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, a pan-Arab movement that Egypt has banned as a terrorist group.
Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president who hailed from the now outlawed Brotherhood, was ousted by the military in 2013 after massive protests against his divisive rule.
The authorities subsequently launched a major crackdown on the Brotherhood, arresting Morsi and many others of the group’s leaders.
His death drew criticism from international and local human rights groups, which accused the Egyptian government of deliberately denying Morsi access to medical care in jail.
A statement Thursday by Shoukry accused Erdogan of spreading ‘extremist thought’.
Yesterday a new UN report stated that Khashoggi was drugged with a sedative and suffocated with a plastic bag.
Investigators also said they found ‘credible evidence’ that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was behind the killing.
An audio recording of Khashoggi’s final moments apparently reveals how his killers discussed cutting his body into pieces, before accosting the dissident writer who died amid ‘sounds of a struggle’.
Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan, speaking during a campaign rally in Istanbul for the June 23 re-run of Istanbul elections on Wednesday. At the campaign speech Erdogan offered as evidence the fact that the deposed president allegedly ‘flailed’ in court for 20 minutes and that nobody assisted him
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