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土耳其总统的指控直接与沙特政府的说法相矛盾
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contradicting v.相矛盾
curb[kɜ:b] n.限制
plank[plæŋk] n.纲领
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Turkey’s president has alleged that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in a “savage” pre-planned murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, directly contradicting the Gulf kingdom’s account of the commentator’s death.
The accusations by Recep Tayyip Erdogan are the most detailed to be made in public by Ankara since Khashoggi’s disappearance this month, significantly raising the pressure on the Saudi royal family as it hosts a high-profile investment conference.
It also puts the spotlight back on the Saudi leadership after a week in which it attempted to draw a line under the disappearance. Khashoggi’s killing has triggered more international condemnation of the Gulf state than at any point since Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman took de facto control last year.
“We have strong evidence in our hands that shows the murder wasn’t accidental but was instead the outcome of a planned operation,” Mr Erdogan said in speech to members of his parliamentary party. “Khashoggi was murdered in a savage manner.”
The Turkish president said that investigations showed the killing was planned several days in advance. He said that a team of 15 people had begun arriving in Istanbul the day before Mr Khashoggi’s disappearance. Three of them scouted out a forest and a city 55 miles away, where police later began searching for Mr Khashoggi’s body, he said.
In a sign of the delicate regional power dynamics at play, Mr Erdogan stopped short of directly accusing the Saudi leadership of murder. But he raised a series of questions that he demanded Riyadh must answer.
“People who had qualifications related to the incident gathered in Istanbul,” he said. “Why did they come to Istanbul? What instructions were given to them and by whom? We need to know.”
Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday that it is taking measures to reveal the truth and would “hold to account those responsible whoever they are,” in a government statement following the weekly cabinet meeting chaired by the king in the capital Riyadh.
Mr Erdogan urged the Saudi leadership to “work hard to reveal the names of those involved from bottom to top” and called for 18 people arrested in Saudi Arabia last week in connection with the killing to be put on trial in Turkey.
But he said he did not “question the sincerity” of King Salman, the country’s ruler, whom he repeatedly described as the custodian of Islam’s two holiest mosques. Nor did he mention Prince Mohammed, despite the drip feed of leaks suggesting an organised Saudi plot.
Instead, the Turkish president sought to ratchet up the pressure on the Gulf state by laying out the unanswered questions. He asked why the consulate was only opened to Turkish police days after the disappearance for an investigation and added: “Why has the body still not been found?”
Mr Erdogan had hitherto maintained a careful public stance towards Riyadh. Turkish officials say that the country is reluctant to lead a lone charge against a regional heavyweight. Instead, the Turkish president had sanctioned the drip-feeding of details from the investigation to local and international media in the hope of stoking international outrage at the Gulf kingdom.
He welcomed Saudi Arabia’s acknowledgment over the weekend that Khashoggi had died, which contrasted with its previous insistence the journalist had left the building safely. But he warned that Riyadh’s attempt to blame rogue officers “will not satisfy us”.
He made no mention of an audio recording that purportedly exists of the moment of Khashoggi’s death. Nor did he repeat the lurid details about Khashoggi’s alleged dismemberment that have appeared in local and international press.
Mr Erdogan’s attempt to turn the screws on Saudi Arabia came as the head of the CIA, Gina Haspel, was due to arrive in Ankara. She was expected to review the evidence gathered by Turkish investigators, according to media reports.
A central plank of Turkey’s strategy has been to persuade the US to join the international outrage against Riyadh. The US is Saudi Arabia’s most important international backer. Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner have invested heavily in the relationship with King Salman and his son, Prince Mohammed.
Mr Trump has adopted a shifting stance towards the scandal. Having initially appeared willing to accept Saudi claims that “rogue” killers were responsible for the journalist’s death, he later appeared more sceptical. After Saudi Arabia claimed that Khashoggi had died in a fist fight gone wrong, the US president said that he was “not satisfied” with the explanation.
Turkey’s caution has led to speculation that Ankara could seek some kind of financial deal that would minimise the embarrassment to Saudi Arabia while providing a boost to Turkey’s fragile economy.
The lira slid 3 per cent against the dollar in Tuesday trading, after Mr Erdogan’s alliance with an ultranationalist party collapsed ahead of hotly contested local elections next year.
But analysts increasingly believe that the Turkish president’s goal is much bigger, arguing that he is seeking to curb the power of Prince Mohammed and reshape regional power dynamics that have worked against Turkey and its allies.
The young Saudi crown prince is seen as the architect of many of the Gulf kingdom’s most aggressive policies and actions in the Middle East, from the apparent kidnapping of the Lebanese prime minister last year to a Saudi-led blockade of Qatar, a key Turkish ally.
Galip Dalay, a visiting scholar at Oxford university’s Department of Politics and International Relations, said that Turkey’s strategy was to sideline Prince Mohammed or force his resignation: “The perception is that, if there was someone more mature, more experienced, they would not have gone for the more disastrous policies.”
请根据你所读到的文章内容，完成以下自测题目：
A. Accidentally killing Khashoggi
B. Murdering Khashoggi in a savage manner
C. Colluding with the US to sabotage Turkey's economy
D. Hosting an investment conference without inviting Turkey
答案 (1)
A. King Salman
B. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
C. Dolnald Trump
D. Jamal Khashoggi
答案 (2)
A. Prince Mohammed
B. King Salman
C. A 15-people team a team who had flown into Istanbul on the day of the crime
D. Khashoggi's girl friend
答案 (3)
A. Erdogan presented audio as evidence.
B. Erdogan talked in detail about how Khashoggi is dismembered.
C. Erdogan refused to believe that rogue killers are responsible for the killing.
D. Erdogan didn't point finger at Prince Mohammed because he's fond of him.
答案 (4)
(1) 答案：B解释：“We have strong evidence in our hands that shows the murder wasn’t accidental but was instead the outcome of a planned operation,” Mr Erdogan said in speech to members of his parliamentary party. “Khashoggi was murdered in a savage manner.”
(2) 答案：B解释：Khashoggi’s killing has triggered more international condemnation of the Gulf state than at any point since Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman took de facto control last year.
(3) 答案：C解释：The Turkish president said that investigations showed that the killing was planned several days in advance and that a team of 15 people had flown into Istanbul on the day of the crime before leaving the same day. 埃尔多安只是提到了这个15人的团队，但是并没有直接指责沙特国王，也没有提到王储。
(4) 答案：C解释：埃尔多安对于沙特拿特工背锅的说辞不以为然。