CIA chief in Turkey to follow up on Khashoggi case

23 October 2018, 4:42 pm

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A US official says CIA Director Gina Haspel is in Turkey to review the case of slain Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi. The official was not authorized to discuss the trip and spoke only on condition of anonymity.

Haspel’s visit comes a day after US President Donald Trump said he was not satisfied with Saudi Arabia’s explanation of Khashoggi’s death three weeks ago in the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul.

Women look as Turkish police stand guard as they cordoned off an underground car park, on October 23, 2018 in Istanbul, where an abandoned car belonging to the Saudi consulate has been found, three weeks after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate. (OZAN KOSE / AFP)

Saudi Arabia said he was killed in a fistfight, but Turkish officials said the 59-year-old Washington Post columnist was attacked and killed by a 15-man Saudi team.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he wants Saudi Arabia to allow 18 suspects that it detained for the journalist’s killing to be tried in Turkish courts.

— AP