Jamal Khashoggi

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has suggested a United Nations-led investigative mission on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by a death squad specifically deployed to Istanbul by high-level Saudi officials.

New CCTV photos of the Saudi individuals suspected of killing Jamal Khashoggi have been revealed by Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency.

The assassination of Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi, a Washington Post journalist and fierce critic of Saudi Arabia, at the latter's consulate in Istanbul on October 2, with the apparent approval of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has already had far more serious repercussions than the fact as such.

A covert Saudi initiative backed by the United States aimed at forging closer relations between the kingdom and Israel faltered following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, The Wall Street Journal reported on Dec. 18.

Saudi Arabia issued an unusually strong rebuke of the U.S. Senate on Monday, rejecting a bipartisan resolution that put the blame for the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi squarely on the Saudi crown prince and describing it as interference in the kingdom's affairs.

UN chief Antonio Guterres called on Dec. 16 for a "credible" probe into journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul.     

"It is absolutely essential to have a credible investigation and to have the punishment of those that were guilty," Guterres said at a conference in Doha.

Turkey's foreign minister said Dec. 15 his country would "not give up" on finding out the truth about the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul.

CIA Director Gina Haspel briefed key lawmakers in the House of Representatives on Dec. 12 on her agency's findings in its investigation into the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in October at his country's Istanbul consulate, was named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" Tuesday, an honor he shared with other persecuted journalists dubbed as "guardians" of the truth.    

Turkey is in talks with the United Nations regarding the investigation into the killing of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Dec. 11.