, now playing in select theaters and releasing on VOD platforms today, sheds new light on why Khashoggi was killed and how his assassination was carried out. Fogel obtained the full transcript of Turkey’s secret audio recording of the gruesome murder and he sat down with key Turkish officials who investigated the crime.
“Clearly the [Turkish] president [Recep Tayyip Erdoğan] had to bless those interviews and decisions to release that footage and the material, because that couldn’t have come from anyone else,” the director asserts. “But that decision was made through the months of trust that was built, that they saw that I was not there to take on other political issues.”
By the time Cengiz and Khashoggi had met he was already on the outs with his country’s rulers. His transformation from insider with access to the corridors of power in Riyadh to pariah in self-exile had been a remarkable one, fueled by his increasing willingness to criticize the kingdom’s policies. Khashoggi deplored Saudi Arabia’s role squashing the Arab Spring, which had brought hope of democratic reforms across many Arab countries, but posed a threat to Saudi Arabia’s ruling elite.
also reveals he made contact around that time with another Saudi dissident, Omar Abdulaziz, who had gone into exile in Montreal, Quebec. The film says Khashoggi became increasingly supportive of efforts by Abdulaziz to disrupt Saudi disinformation activities.
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