The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo thinks that the United States should give Saudi Arabia a few days to complete the investigation into the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He said that to President Donald Trump on Thursday, he told journalists at the White House.
Russian President Vladimir Putin sees no reason to revise relations with Saudi Arabia. He said Thursday that Russia does not have enough information about the unexplained disappearance of a Saudi journalist to justify a review of ties with Riyadh.
With a one-day delay, the Turkish authorities have now also searched the home of Saudi consul in Istanbul in the hope of finding traces of the missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The state press agency Anadolu reported that a detective team entered the building on Wednesday.
A number of suspects identified by Turkey in the case of the missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi comes from the immediate surroundings of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The New York Times writes this on the basis of facial recognition, social network profiles, media reports and leaked Saudi government documents.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Ankara on Wednesday. He will hold interviews with Turkish officials about the disappearance of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
US President Donald Trump was told by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman last Tuesday that he has no idea what happened at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared there two weeks ago. The Turkish authorities think he was killed.
The American minister of Foreign Affairs, Mike Pompeo, also had a conversation with his son, crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, after a meeting with Saudi king in Riyadh. Pompeo traveled to the region because of the disappearance of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He lived in the US and disappeared at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul at the beginning of this month.
The Turkish police will search the home of the Saudi consul in Istanbul on Tuesday. This is a day after the police searched the Saudi consulate for nine hours. According to reports from Turkish media, detectives also return Tuesday at the consulate for further investigation. The consul general himself, Cemal Kasikci, has not yet been questioned.
It is unlikely that Minister Wopke Hoekstra (Finance) will go to Saudi Arabia next week for an international investment conference. If that country does not comply with international requests for clarification about the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, or if it appears that it is involved in his death, the visit is off track.
Turkish researchers have left the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. According to a witness from Reuters news agency, a team of about ten agents left the building after a search of about 9.5 hours. Not long after that the Turkish prosecutor came out to investigate the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi died when he was questioned at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. That statement Saudi Arabia will give for the death of Khashoggi, CNN reports on the basis of anonymous sources.
Turkish and Saudi researchers have entered the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. That is the last place where journalist Jamal Khashoggi is seen alive. He entered the building in early October and did not come out anymore.
Nineteen migrants were killed in western Turkey when the truck they were in was crashing. Five people were injured according to Turkish media, including the truck driver.
US President Donald Trump says he will 'severely punish Saudi Arabia' if the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. That said in an interview with the station CBS.
After the release of the American preacher Andrew Brunson and his departure from Turkey, the presidents of Turkey and the United States can get together again through Twitter. Brunson, who was held in Turkey for about two years on suspected ties with terror organizations until Friday afternoon, was at the center of a serious dispute between Ankara and Washington.
The Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi secretly recorded his own interrogation and torture in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and forwarded it to his fiancé.
The net closes around Saudi Arabia. The Turkish government has informed the United States that it has audio and video footage that proves that Jamal Khashoggi was murdered last week in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Then a special team cut his body into pieces.
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.
The Turkish authorities have arrested 417 people in an investigation into a large money laundering operation. Together, the group would have transferred over 360 million euros to thousands of accounts abroad.
The political opposition in Turkey has strongly criticized President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for accepting a luxury airplane from Qatar as a gift. Erdogan defended himself by saying that the Boeing 747 is not meant for himself, but that it is a gift to the Turkish state.
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.
