Khashoggi

The United Nations human rights office said on Jan. 4 it could not assess the fairness of a trial taking place in Saudi Arabia related to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but that in any case it was "not sufficient".

Saudi state media say that suspects in the slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi have attended their first court hearing.

All evidence collected by Turkey point that the missing body of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is inside the well of the garden of the Saudi consul's house, after it was carefully placed there by the instructions of the "Tiger Team" of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the writers of a new book on the murder say.

Turkey is working with other countries to carry the investigation into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to the United Nations, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Dec. 24. 

Saudi Arabia announced on Dec. 20 the creation of three new government bodies aimed at improving the country's intelligence operations in the wake of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which has sparked international outrage.

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.