First, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – a Putin-like compatriot -- exposes Saudi Arabia’s assassination of Saudi journalist and critic Jamal Khashoggi inside its own consulate in Istanbul in 2018. Erdogan very cleverly had his security services place cameras and recording instruments inside the consulate well before Khashoggi was lured there to finalize documents necessary to marry Hatice Cengiz, his Turkish fiancée.