Foreign ministers of Turkey and Saudi Arabia discuss journalist's murder case

Baku. 26 October. REPORT.AZ/ Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has held a telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Adel al-Jubeir.

Report informs citing Hürriyet that the information was obtained from diplomatic sources

The sides discussed bilateral relations and journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder.

Notably, Jamal Khashoggi was killed on October 2 in the building of the Saudi Consulate General in Istanbul. By staging a scene with Khashoggi's double who wore the journalist's clothes and eyeglasses and left the Consulate building, Saudi Arabia intended to persuade the international community that the killed journalist left the diplomatic mission. By this way, they planned to condemn Turkey for the Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance. However, on October 20, Saudi Arabia officially admitted that the journalist was killed in the building of the Consulate General. King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman expressed their condolences to Khashoggi's family. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said during a speech at the International Economic Forum "Future Investment Initiative" held in Riyadh that killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Consulate General in Istanbul was regretful.

Notably, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke on this issue at the meeting of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) parliamentary faction on October 23.