Not sure why Kashoggi went to a Saudi consulate in Turkey but not here in US.

Very good question. I heard that a Saudi consulate in DC asked him to go to Turkey. Khashoggi should not have gone to any Saudi consulate at all--of course, this is something one learns after the fact. But he should have known better that Saudi is not some random Western country.

Given that he was a journalist and had his Iwatch recording, maybe he underestimated the severity of the situation, and simply expected to get a story about unfairness he would survive to tell.

> I heard that a Saudi consulate in DC asked him to go to Turkey

Thanks for answering my question. Seems like he fell into a trap.

There is a speculation that that was the purpose of Turkey investigating this in such a way: https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2018/10/18/the-secr...

Yeah as awful as what happened to Kashoggi is, Saudi Arabia was been savagely murdering people for decades and nobody blinked.

It’s not just the Turks— this whole thing is an internal power struggle over dynastic succession with hundreds of billions of dollars at stake.

Nobody making a stink about this in Congress gives a solitary shit about press freedom in Saudi Arabia. I guarantee there is some money being funneled to all those guys from some interest in Saudi Arabia opposed to the crown prince.

It's understandable, but not admirable, that the media only cares when it's someone they identify with.

I wouldn't call in "only cares" but certainly "rallies around" more than usual.

Homicides in the general population happen regularly and are taken seriously, but if a cop is murdered? That's next-level enforcement.

Humans naturally band together to protect a tribe they're a part of. Modern tribes revolve around work.

It's really palpable when the media comes out swinging when it's about one of their own.

Can definitely empathize.

In this case, literally a member of the US media.