A still photo from a closed circuit television camera obtained by state-run TRT World on Tuesday (October 9) purportedly showed Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entering Saudi consulate on October 2, before he disappeared.
Khashoggi entered the consulate last Tuesday and has not been heard of or seen since, his fiancée and friends say. Turkish officials told Reuters at the weekend they believed he had been killed inside the Saudi consulate.
Saudi Arabian officials invited Turkish experts and related officials to visit its consulate in Istanbul, Turkey's state-owned news agency Anadolu said on Tuesday, following the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi a week ago.
Turkey's Foreign Ministry said a search would be conducted there
Khashoggi was previously a prominent newspaper editor in Saudi Arabia and an adviser to a former head of intelligence. His disappearance has sparked global concerns, particularly after Turkish sources said over the weekend that authorities believed he had been killed inside the consulate.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday asked Riyadh to prove its claim that Khashoggi had left the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, while Washington urged Saudi Arabia to support an investigation into his disappearance.
REUTERS