Employees of the Turkish government have told colleagues from the United States that they have video and audio evidence that the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The Americans say to The Washington Post that especially the audio evidence is very strong. It would be heard that Khashoggi is arrested, tortured and eventually killed and cut into pieces.
Turkey has accepted a proposal from Saudi Arabia to jointly investigate the case of the missing Saudi journalist. A joint team has to investigate 'all aspects' of the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, says a spokesperson for the Turkish president Erdogan against the Anadolu news agency.
The Turkish police and intelligence services minutely follow the corridors of a team of fifteen Saudi agents that are held responsible for the mysterious disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi. In addition, they will soon start an investigation at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, where the prominent journalist was last seen.
The prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who is missing since he visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week, was tortured and murdered by a flown-in liquidation team. Saudi agents then cut his body into pieces and smuggled it out of the building in boxes.
The Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered at the consulate of Saudi Arabia. That is what Yasin Aktay, adviser to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Turkish ruling party AK, told TV channel CNN Turk. He said earlier that Khashoggi did not leave the consulate in a 'normal way'.
The Turkish authorities think that the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead. He would have been killed when he visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to fulfill some formalities. Two sources have said this to the Reuters news agency.
Turkey may search in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul for the missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi. So says the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, who emphasizes that his country 'has nothing to hide.'
A prominent critic of the government in Saudi Arabia has disappeared in Turkey. He is probably being held at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul.
Turkish authorities released about 160 construction workers yesterday that protested last Friday against the bad working conditions of building a new airport near Istanbul that is to become the largest in the world.
A Turkish filmmaker has been sentenced to a prison sentence of more than six years for membership in a terrorist organization. Ali Avci made a film that was based on the failed coup of 2016.
The Turkish driver of a van is stopped by the police. Bizarre images went viral showing that a woman is tied to the back of the car.
The Turkish authorities have arrested two men because of the bombardment of the American embassy in Ankara. A vehicle and a firearm were also seized. The arrested people in their thirties have a criminal record and made a confession after their arrest, the authorities in the Turkish capital report.
'Get your gold from under your pillow and exchange it for Turkish lira.' With that call, also for euro banknotes, President Recep Tayyip asked Erdogan Turks to use their property as 'resistance against the whole world'.
A court in Turkey sentenced 72 people to life for their role in riots that arose in Istanbul during the failed coup attempt in July 2016. They would have killed civilians who, after President Erdogan's call, rifled the perpetrators of the coup.
The Turkish television preacher Adnan Oktar and more than two hundred of his supporters have been arrested. The Public Prosecution Service in Istanbul has charged Oktar and his followers with participation in a criminal organization, fraud and sexual abuse.
The death toll due to the train accident in Turkey rose to 24. At least 73 people were injured, reports Turkish media.
A train accident in northwestern Turkey has claimed at least ten lives according to Turkish media. According to a spokesperson for the Turkish Ministry of the Interior, 73 people were injured.
The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan expects a high turnout in the presidential and parliamentary elections in his country Sunday. 'The participation looks good,' he said immediately after he had his own vote in Istanbul.
Turkey has released a German businesswoman who was arrested in Istanbul on Wednesday. The Turkish authorities spoke of an 'error in the system.'
The famous Taksim Square in the heart of Istanbul has changed enormously.
Turkish president Erdogan is trying to show his aversion to Israel after the 62 deaths in Gaza early this week. He held a mega demonstration against Israel in Istanbul yesterday, after many others have been around Turkey.
Israel has reacted indignantly to the treatment of the ambassador expelled by Turkey. Turkish media recorded how the Israeli diplomat Eitan Naveh had to undergo a security check at the Istanbul airport.
The Turkish authorities have arrested dozens of foreigners who would have ties with the terrorist organization IS. Anti-terrorist units in Istanbul met at the same time buildings in thirteen districts, say sources within the police against the Turkish state press agency Anadolu.
The Turkish election campaign has become grim, now that physical attacks between political opponents are taking place.
Turkey has 'the duty to share the suffering suffered by the Armenians in the events of 1915'. Turkish president Erdogan said this in a statement that was circulated on Tuesday on the day of the commemoration of the Armenian genocide. It was set in motion on 24 April 1915 in the former capital of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul.
Three courts in Turkey have together convicted 28 soldiers to a life sentence for their share in the failed coup attempt in July 2016.
A huge cargo ship sailed a chic mansion on the banks of the Bosporus in Istanbul after the helm got stuck. The havoc is enormous. The waterway is closed for navigation.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the actions of Israel in the border with Gaza. He called the shooting of fifteen Palestinian demonstrators by Israeli soldiers a 'killing.'
Five passengers, including four Russians, were killed on Friday as a result of a helicopter accident in Istanbul, reported the Russian news agency TASS. Two people were injured by the crash.
Due to a collision between a passenger bus and a truck, thirteen people were killed in Turkey. At least twenty people were injured, according to Turkish media.
