Turkey asks Saudi Arabia to explain what happened to Khashoggi's body
Speaking to reporters in Japan on Tuesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said in his comments that Saudi Arabia bore responsibility to find out what happened to the body of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed by 15-man hit-team at Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.
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- Published Date: 12:00 | 06 November 2018
- Modified Date: 11:42 | 06 November 2018
Saudi Arabia bears responsibility to find out what happened to the body of Jamal Khashoggi, Turkey's foreign minister said, reiterating Ankara's stance that it was not King Salman who ordered the killing, Anadolu news agency reported.
Speaking to reporters in Japan, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Turkey has further information which it will share when Ankara knows for sure that the investigation has been completed.
Çavuşoğlu also said it was not possible for a 15-man team to come to Turkey to kill a Saudi citizen without orders.
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