Turkey to quiz more witnesses in Khashoggi probe — report

21 October 2018, 5:36 pm

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Turkish prosecutors have summoned more witnesses to testify as part of the investigation into the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, local television reports.

Twenty-five more people will be quizzed as witnesses, the private NTV broadcaster says, without providing any further details.

On Friday, prosecutors questioned staff members of the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul inside Istanbul’s main courthouse, including the consulate driver, technicians and accountants.

Early on Saturday Saudi Arabia finally admitted that Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi leadership and a Washington Post contributor, was killed inside the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate.

For more than two weeks it had insisted that he left the building alive.

— AFP