Turkey says Saudis not cooperating in missing journalist probe
Speaking to reporters during a visit to London, after a delegation from Saudi Arabia arrived in Turkey for a joint investigation into Khashoggi's disappearance, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said in his Saturday remarks that Saudi Arabia must cooperate with the investigation into the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and allow Turkish officials to enter its Istanbul consulate.
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- Published Date: 12:00 | 13 October 2018
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Turkey's foreign minister on Saturday accused Saudi Arabia of failing to cooperate in the probe into the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at its consulate in Istanbul, calling on Riyadh to grant access to Turkish investigators.
"We still have not seen cooperation in order to ensure a smooth investigation and bring everything to light. We want to see this," Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu was quoted as saying by state-run Anadolu news agency.
Ankara had said that a search of the consulate had been agreed but this has yet to materialise amid reports the two sides are at odds over the conditions of entry into what is Saudi sovereign territory.
Speaking during an official visit to London, Çavuşoğlu said that Riyadh must let Turkish "prosecutors and experts enter the consulate" to carry out their investigation.
"Where did he go missing? There, at the consulate," the Turkish foreign minister said, adding that "talks are continuing" with Saudi officials in a bid to resolve the impasse.
Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who had been living in self-imposed exile in the US since late 2017, vanished on October 2 after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to get paperwork for his upcoming wedding.