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[ad_1] ISTANBUL: Saudi Arabia must cooperate with the investigation into the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and allow Turkish officials to enter its Istanbul consulate, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday. Cavusoglu was 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. [ad_2]

[ad_1] Image copyright EPA Image caption Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen since entering the consulate Turkey says it will conduct a search of Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul over the missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The country's foreign ministry said Saudi Arabia was "open to co-operation" and a requested search of the building could now go ahead as part of the investigation. Mr Khashoggi was last seen visiting the consul last week and Turkey says he may have been murdered there. Saudi Arabia denies the suggestion. It says the journalist left the consulate shortly after arriving, while Turkey says he was not seen leaving the building. The country has demanded Saudi Arabia prove he left - despite not giving evidence of the claim he was killed inside. The journalist who vanished int...

[ad_1] Image copyright AFP / Getty Images Image caption Saudi officials have let some journalists inside the consulate since the allegation was made Turkey has requested a search of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, after saying that a journalist was murdered within its walls, media reports say. Missing writer Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi national, was last seen visiting the consulate on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia has called the allegations baseless. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has previously said officials are welcome to conduct a search as there is nothing to hide. Missing Saudi writer gets blank column Who is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed? Turkish officials made the accusation on Sunday. They said their investigators had "concrete proof" of the killing which, they said, was carried out by a 15-person Saudi tea...

[ad_1] Image copyright EPA Image caption Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen since lunchtime on Tuesday Fears are growing over missing Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi, after Turkish officials said they believe he has been murdered. Mr Khashoggi, a Saudi national, went missing after visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday. A Turkish official told the BBC that initial investigations indicated he was murdered there. Saudi Arabia has denied the accusations, saying it is "working to search for him". The Washington Post said it would be a "monstrous and unfathomable act" if he had been killed. The BBC's Istanbul correspondent, Mark Lowen, said it would plunge Turkish-Saudi relations into an unprecedented crisis. Turkish officials have opened an investigation and have been speaking...

[ad_1] Image copyright EPA Image caption Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen since lunchtime on Tuesday Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has said his country's consulate in Istanbul can be searched for a missing Saudi journalist. Turkish authorities were welcome to search the building for Jamal Khashoggi , who has not been heard from since Tuesday, he told Bloomberg News. Mr Khashoggi - a critic of Mr bin Salman - disappeared after entering the consulate to complete paperwork. He left "a few minutes or one hour" after going in, the prince said. "He's a Saudi citizen and we are very keen to know what happened to him. And we will continue our dialogue with the Turkish government to see what happened to Jamal there," he said in the interview with Bloomberg. "My understa...

[ad_1] ISTANBUL: Mystery surrounded the whereabouts of a prominent Saudi critic on Thursday after Riyadh announced he had left their consulate in Istanbul -- but Turkey and his fiancee said he had not been heard from since entering the building. Jamal Khashoggi, a contributor to the Washington Post, went to the Saudi consulate on Tuesday to receive an official document for his marriage. His fiancee reported him missing after the journalist, who has lived in self-imposed exile in the US since last year to avoid possible arrest, was not seen to emerge. The former government adviser, has been critical of some policies of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Riyadh's intervention in the war in Yemen. After an initial period of silence Saudi Arabia said the consulate was working with Turkish authorities "to uncover the circumstances of the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi after he left the consulate building" in a statement published Thursday by the state-run SPA news a...