Saudi crown prince and Erdogan plan crucial talks in Turkey

September 26, 2016

Riyadh, Sep 26: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif, minister of interior, will travel to Turkey and meet with top Turkish officials including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Thursday for the first time since the attempted coup in Turkey in July.

The crown prince will also hold talks with Turkish business leaders, according to reports published Sunday in local Arabic media here.

“The crown prince will be accompanied by several high-ranking Saudi officials including Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir and Majid Al-Qassabi, minister of commerce and investment,” said a reliable source, while giving details about the royal visit.

He said that the crown prince will hold wide-ranging consultations with the Turkish president and prime minister during his two-day stay in Turkey.

The visit of the crown prince, ahead of the meeting of the high-profile Saudi-Turkish Strategic Cooperation Council, is significant, keeping in view the close ties between the two countries.

Turkey has also been vocal on the US’ Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), and has vehemently opposed the bill. Erdogan, in fact, called on the US and the US officials, including President Barack Obama, to veto the bill.

In a recent report, Erdogan said: “Turkey will never approve such an act by the US. The entire country cannot be held responsible just because a few Saudi nationals committed a crime.

Let me give you another example. The leader of FETO lives in the US and all can see the terrorism waged by this group. Should we punish the US for that? Can we pass a law in Parliament to demand compensation from the US?”.

Referring to the major topics on the agenda of discussions between the crown prince and Turkish officials, the source said they include “key bilateral, regional and international issues including terrorism and security.”

The talks may also focus on the failed coup in Turkey.

Crown Prince Mohammed, who is also the chairman of the Council for Political and Security Affairs, will also meet with the Turkish minister of defense and minister of foreign affairs.

The visit coincides with the plan of the Turkish government to announce new incentives and facilities for foreign investors, in particular to Saudi and Gulf businessmen, to promote foreign investments.

A large number of Saudi companies are active in Turkey, while Turkish companies have been actively working in the Kingdom for the last several decades.

The investment of Saudi companies in Turkey will exceed $2 billion as of now.

On the other hand, the trade turnover between Turkey and Saudi Arabia amounted to $2 billion between January and March 2016.

The trade turnover between the countries amounted to $5.5 billion last year.

Several Turkish companies, which have had sound technological know-how, have expressed keen interest to set up joint ventures or work closely with their counterparts in the Kingdom.

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UN condemns Israeli regime’s ‘organized torture’ against Palestinians

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November 30,2025

The United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has condemned the Israeli regime for enforcing a policy of “organized torture” against Palestinians.

In a report published on Friday, CAT stated that the occupying regime enforces a deliberate policy of “organized and widespread torture and ill-treatment” against Palestinian abductees, particularly since October 7, 2023, when Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza.

The committee expressed “deep concern over repeated severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, water-boarding, use of prolonged stress positions [and] sexual violence” inflicted on Palestinians.

Palestinian prisoners were degraded by “being made to act like animals or being urinated on,” systematically denied medical care, and subjected to excessive restraints, “in some cases resulting in amputation,” the report added.

CAT also condemned the routine application of “unlawful combatants law” to justify the prolonged detention without trial of thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children.

More than 10,000 Palestinians, including women and children, are currently held in Israeli prisons, according to Palestinian and international human rights groups, with 3,474 Palestinians in “administrative detention,” meaning they are imprisoned without trial for indefinite periods.

The report highlighted the “high proportion of children who are currently detained without charge or on remand,” noting that while Israel sets the age of criminal responsibility at 12, even younger children have been abducted.

Children designated as security prisoners face severe restrictions on family contact, may be subjected to solitary confinement, and are denied access to education, in clear violation of international law.

The committee further suggested that Israel’s policies across the Occupied Territories constitute collective torture against the Palestinian population.

“A range of policies adopted by Israel in the course of its continued unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading living conditions for the Palestinian population,” the report said.

On Thursday, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas condemned the systematic killing and torture of Palestinian abductees in Israeli prisons, urging international action to halt these abuses.

Citing human rights data, Hamas stated that 94 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli prisons since the start of Tel Aviv’s genocidal war on Gaza.

“This reflects an organized criminal approach that has turned these prisons into direct killing grounds to eliminate our people,” the resistance movement said.

Hamas called on the international community, the UN, and human rights organizations to immediately pressure Israel to end crimes against prisoners and uphold their rights as guaranteed by all international conventions and norms.

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