Turkish prosecutor: Khashoggi was strangled, dismembered inside Saudi consulate
By Rebecca Kheel - 10/31/18 10:50 AM EDT
A Turkish prosecutor publicly said for the first time on Wednesday that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this month, adding he was later dismembered.
A statement from chief Istanbul prosecutor Irfan Fidan’s office also said discussions with Saudi chief prosecutor Saud al-Mojeb have yielded no “concrete results†despite “good-willed efforts†by Turkey to uncover the truth, according to The Associated Press.
Khashoggi, a Virginia resident and Washington Post columnist critical of the Saudi government, was killed Oct. 2 when he went the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to get paperwork for his marriage to his Turkish fiancée.
Unnamed Turkish officials have previously told news outlets that Khashoggi was tortured, killed and dismembered by a 15-person Saudi hit squad that included a forensic doctor wielding a bone saw.
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