Khashoggi’s Case at the Egyptian Media: with Saudi Arabia against Turkey

The Egyptian media is dealing with the disappearance of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi as an opponent to the Saudi regime who is kidnapped in the Turkish territories.

Khashoggi was last seen entering the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 2, to extract papers on his marriage. He never came out. Turkey believes that he was killed in the consulate. Riyadh denied the allegations of kidnapping or killing Khashoggi and said it’s a baseless accusation.

Although the Egyptian media are very reluctant and cautious on all matters where the Saudi Kingdom is an original party in it, such as the arrest of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Riyadh at the end of October last year, however, this time was completely different.

The case of the disappearance of the prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi attracted much attention at the Egyptian media table.

Essam Kamel, a journalist, and author of Veto Gate- Egyptian News Portal is an Arabic online portal-said in his article last Monday that Khashoggi played all the roles until the magic turned on the magician.

“If you decide to fight a certain battle, you have to understand the rules of war, if you want to play, you have to know the rules of the game, and whoever misses the rules has to bear the consequences.”

He continued, “Khashoggi played more than one role and turned all the roles he played, and the result was a mysterious disappearance, no one can determine its characteristics, causes or end. Was Khashoggi killed? Nobody can give a documented information. “

” Khashoggi played with fire, and the fire burns those who do not know the rules of the game. In issues related to countries and rulers, none can monitor the communication with other institutions as the main reason behind his disappearance that he worked for different agendas, the man had moved between streams, systems, and groups…” He wasn’t playing the role of the opponent for freedom. The problem is much more complicated.”

The same site was campaigning stood with the Saudi stance against Turkey and wrote on Tuesday, October 9, a report entitled “Kid Osmanli: Turkey accuses Egypt in the crisis of the disappearance of Khashoggi” and stated “this proved Turkey’s intention to enclose the names of  some Arab countries that are in direct dispute with Ankara.

The Turkish newspaper “Daily Sabah” claimed on Wednesday, 15 Saudis arrived in planes to Istanbul are linked to Khashoggi’s disappearance.

The report pointed out that “What is surprising in the report published by the Turkish newspaper: First, it completely ignored the sovereignty of Ankara, and showed the supervisors of the operation as superheroes who could penetrate a sovereign state to implement an operation of this size.” It continued,” while the official authorities in Ankara are silent until now, and it doesn’t have a concrete evidence until now about the involvement of Saudi Arabia or other countries in the matter.”

Al-Masry Al-Youm has also backed the Saudi ranks. Any reader can enter the name Khashoggi in the search box on the independent newspaper’s website to directly read the addresses of the Saudi site, as if browsing the pages of the Saudi newspaper Al Watan or Okaz.

The news reports and titles found on the newspaper were only portraying these messages; “Saudi ambassador to Washington: Jamal Khashoggi’s safety is  a top priority for the kingdom.” Another title read, “a former Saudi dissident: I have been cruel to my country for 20 years and nobody has threatened me.”

More titles appeared as “Khashoggi’s family: We trust our government. “A Saudi denies the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi in the Kingdom’s Consulate and the Saudi Foreign Ministry denies rumors of the expulsion of the Turkish ambassador from the kingdom.” In his last contact with his father, Khashoggi’s son said: We don’t know his Turkish Fiance and the Saudi consulate open its doors for inspections. ”

The private newspaper Al-Watan also followed the Saudi story, and its headlines said,” Dhahi Khalfan: the accusations against Saudi Arabia on the abduction of Khashoggi are fabricated stories.” Another headline read,” A  Saudi analyst said Qatar’s media distorts the Kingdom’s image after the disappearance of Khashoggi and kidnapping is not our way.” It also cited a political analyst saying,” Qatar and Turkey are trying to blackmail Saudi Arabia.”

Al-Youm7, an Egyptian newspaper, was the highest trumpet in supporting Saudi Arabia and attacking Turkey and Qatar, It stated in its the headlines:” El-Doha resort to claim crimes against Saudi Arabia. Okaz reveals the involvement of the Muslim Brotherhood and Qatar in the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.”

In addition to its Editor-in-Chief Dandrawi Al-Hawari who wrote an article that titled ” Did Qatar and the Brotherhood get rid of Jamal Khashoggi after his intention to return to Saudi Arabia? ”

Moreover, in the Egyptian television, Ahmed Mousa the T.V presenter close to the al-Sisi’s regime, said in his program;” The Saudi authorities have confirmed that Gamal Khashoggi entered the consulate and came out of it,” adding that” this game was played against Saudi Arabia by the Turkish intelligence service whose history is full of assassinations. ” He also confirmed that the Saudi scenario in the case of Jamal Khashoggi is the right one.

The same thing happened when Amr Adib, a T.V presenter close to the Egyptian regime,  who had recently moved MBC Saudi Arabia, where he asked websites and newspapers not to anticipate events and not jump to conclusions due to the inaccuracy of the incident. “Don’t be like Al Jazeera’s channel or follow its path,” he said.