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The story says this Saudi dissident in Turkey, went to the Saudi embassy in Istanbul and never came out for fast facts on this.

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Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance sets Saudi and Turkey up for a fight

The case of the vanished journalist looks set to worsen already poor diplomatic relations and damage the kingdom’s international image

David Barchard
Thursday 4 October 2018

Turkey and Saudi Arabia, not so long ago close allies on many topics, appear to be braced for a potentially bruising confrontation after the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, a leading Saudi dissident and commentator, in Istanbul on Tuesday.

Khashoggi visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, trying to regularise details of his status as a divorcee. He left his fiancée outside the building, holding his mobile telephone and other personal effects. But he seems never to have reappeared at the building’s entrance.

His situation is causing alarm among his family, friends, and newspapers, including the Washington Post, because of fears that he may be the victim of an official kidnapping attempt, similar to earlier ones in which dissident Saudi princes disappeared between 2003 and 2017. Though these disappearances were the subject of a BBC documentary film, Western authorities, notably the Swiss government, showed little interest in their fate.

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