A Saudi flag flutters atop Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
Advocacy group Migrant Care reported on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia executed a death row Indonesian domestic worker without giving any consular notification.
Quoting the Indonesian Foreign Ministry, Wahyu Susilo, executive director of the group, said the ambassador in Saudi Arabia did not get any notification.
He said the Saudi move to secretly execute Tuti Tursilawati is an attempt to cover up various human rights violations, especially the right to life.
"Migrant Care urges the Indonesian government to take significant diplomatic steps to protest [against] Saudi Arabia," he added.
The Turkish prosecutor looking into the death of Jamal Khashoggi has asked Saudi Arabia's prosecutor to say who sent the team involved in the journalist's killing, President Tayyip Erdoğan said on Tuesday.Speaking to reporters in parliament, Erdoğan said the Turkish prosecutor had told his Saudi counterpart that the 18 suspects in the case could be tried in Turkey. Saudi officials also needed to reveal the identity of a local cooperator said to have been involved in Khashoggi's disappearance, he said.Saudi Arabia's Chief Prosecutor Saud Al Mojeb on Tuesday arrived at the Consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul as part of probe into slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi.'Jamal Khashoggi deserves a dignified burial'He had previously visited his Turkish counterpart at the Çağlayan Courthouse.Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and a critic of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was killed inside the Consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul after he went there to obtain documents for his forthcoming marriage.After denying any involvement in the disappearance of Khashoggi, 59, for two weeks, Saudi Arabia on Oct. 20 acknowledged his death, saying he had died in a fistfight.Since then, Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor said Khashoggi’s killing was premeditated, contradicting the previous official statement that it happened accidentally during a tussle in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.Turkey denies top Saudi prosecutor’s request for whole Khashoggi file: reportKhashoggi fiancee says Riyadh behind his murder, criticises Trump response"Turkey will destroy terror structures in east of Euphrates"He also said that Turkey will destroy terror structures in the east of the Euphrates River in Syria, adding that the intervention there had begun and more extensive operations will be launched soon."We will walk over terror groups with more effective operations."The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) on Sunday bombed positions belonging to terrorists of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)’s Syrian affiliate, the YPG, on the eastern shore of the Euphrates River in Syria.Artillery shells were fired at the YPG-occupied Zour Magyar to the west of northern Syria's Ayn al-Arab region and was aimed at preventing terrorist activities.Russia-Turkey forum to be held in AntalyaHe said that Turkey would bring down all terror nests on the eastern side of Euphrates. "We have finished all our preparations, plans, program regarding the issue," he added.He said that Turkey cannot "look to the future with confidence without solving the Syrian issue".Syria has only just begun to emerge from a devastating conflict that began in 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on demonstrators with unexpected ferocity.The powers using terror groups as tools to reach their goals are trying to revive Daesh in Syria, Erdoğan warned.Turkey says Idlib deal going as planned, no issue in implementation But, he said, Turkey would never allow them to drag Syria into chaos and bloodshed by inciting the regime or reviving Daesh in the region."Neither people in the region nor the world believe in the Daesh game," said Erdoğan.More than 300 people lost their lives in Daesh-claimed attacks in Turkey, where the terror organization has targeted civilians in suicide bomb, rocket, and gun attacks in recent years.
Erdoğan says Turkish prosecutor asked Saudi counterpart who sent Khashoggi's killers
In a meeting with the Saudi foreign minister last week, President Joko Widodo asked Riyadh to protect the rights of Indonesian migrant workers.
The Indonesian government is yet to respond to the execution.
Tursilawati left for Saudi Arabia in 2009 to seek a better life. She worked as a nurse for a family in the western city of Ta'if.
In 2010 she was sentenced to death for killing her employer which she claimed was done in self defense to protect herself from sexual abuse.
The fiancée of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has said Saudi authorities are responsible for his murder, and the kingdom should give more details so that those who ordered and carried out the killing can be brought to justice.The death of Khashoggi - a Washington Post columnist and a critic of Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman - sparked global outrage and pitched the world's top oil exporter into crisis.When asked who was ultimately responsible for the killing, his fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, told Reuters in Turkish: "This took place inside a Saudi diplomatic mission ... In such circumstances, the Saudi Arabian authorities are responsible for this.""This incident, this assassination, took place in the Saudi consulate," she said, speaking through a translator. "So the Saudi authorities probably know how such a murder took place.""They need to explain what happened," said Cengiz, who was sombre, guarded and appeared at times on the verge of tears.U.S. President Donald Trump has said Prince Mohammed, who has consolidated control over Saudi security and intelligence agencies over the past three years, bore ultimate responsibility for the operation that led to Khashoggi's killing.Turkey takes statements of 38 Saudi Consulate employeesTurkey only allowed to take water sample from well at Saudi consulateWhen asked what she would say to Prince Mohammed if she ever got the chance to speak to him, she said: "I don't think that will ever happen."Cengiz later told an audience she was disappointed with Trump's response to the killing, suggesting U.S. business ties with Riyadh had influenced his approach to the case.Khashoggi, 59, entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 to obtain paperwork necessary for his upcoming marriage to Cengiz, a Turkish national. He did not walk out of the consulate. Cengiz first raised the alarm.Saudi Arabia initially denied any involvement in Khashoggi's disappearance but a Saudi official eventually attributed his death to a botched attempt to return him to the kingdom.Later, Riyadh said the killing was premeditated and Prince Mohammed has vowed that the killers would be brought to justice.Saudi Arabia has detained 18 people and dismissed five senior government officials as part of the investigation into Khashoggi's murder. Some were members of a 15-man hit team, many of them Saudi intelligence operatives, who flew into Istanbul hours before Khashoggi's death, Turkish security sources say.Saudi crown prince presides over committee to restructure intel agencySaudi Arabia says Khashoggi murder premeditatedMurder in IstanbulTurkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who Cengiz praised, has urged Riyadh to disclose who ordered the murder and prosecutors have prepared an extradition request for 18 suspects from Saudi Arabia."The explanations given so far by Saudi Arabia are not sufficient," Cengiz said. "I want to know the details of who is responsible."Asked if she held Crown Prince Mohammed or the Saudi royal family responsible, she said:"I and my government would like all those responsible, from the person who gave this order to those who carried it out, to be brought to justice and punished under international law," she said.Cengiz said she had not been contacted by Prince Mohammed or the Saudi royal family, nor offered any condolences by them.Speaking in central London, she said the West is considered a stronghold of human rights and democracy so it should stand up to the killers of her husband-to-be.Saudi Crown Prince's men in Khashoggi killing"I am disappointed by the actions of the leadership in many countries, particularly in the U.S.," she later told an audience in London."President Trump should help reveal the truth and ensure justice be served. He should not pave the way for a cover-up of my fiance's murder. Let's not let money taint our conscience and compromise our values."Trump has hedged his criticism of Saudi leaders over Khashoggi, insisting he does not want to imperil a "tremendous order" of $110 billion of weapons he says will support 500,000 U.S. jobs - figures that experts say are highly exaggerated.Cengiz met Khashoggi in May at a conference in Istanbul and their relationship blossomed. But the decision to marry in Istanbul, whose mosques reminded Khashoggi of his hometown Medina, set off a paper chase that ultimately ended in death.Turkish law required that Khashoggi, who was divorced, provide proof that he did not have a wife and thus his trip to the consulate. Cengiz said she had been shown no recordings of what happened inside the consulate and that she got most of her information from the media."Like everyone else, I am still waiting for answers," she said. "The world should know who instigated, were involved in and committed this crime."
Khashoggi fiancee says Riyadh behind his murder, criticises Trump response