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After Khashoggi: how diplomatic space became a crime scene

In a world where autocratic regimes are on the rise worldwide, a criminal turn of diplomatic missions may be underway.

By Can Ture
After Khashoggi: how diplomatic space became a crime scene
Turkish police outside the entrance of Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, Friday, October 12, 2018. | Picture by Depo Photos/ABACA/ABACA/PA Images. All rights reserved.
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This is the first part of a two part series on international law and how diplomatic space becomes a crime scene. Read part two here.

The exiled Turkish journalist Can Dundar received a message last October on Twitter with his name mentioned in the post: “Could you please drop by the consulate? We want to try something”, referencing the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist who had been the victim of a gruesome manslaughter in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul shortly before. They implied that Dundar could share the same fate.

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