Missing journalist case: Turkey waiting for permission to search Saudi consul's house
Tehran (KNA) - Turkey says it is waiting for an agreement to enter and search the Saudi consul’s residence in Istanbul as it continues to investigate the case of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared after walking into the kingdom’s mission there.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu made the remarks to Turkey's state-owned Anadolu news agency on Wednesday, a day after Turkish and Saudi investigators searched the consulate for nine hours.
A search of the consul's residence was canceled on Tuesday "because Saudi officials were not able to participate," Reuters reported, citing Turkish police as saying.
Turkish sources unveiled that Saudi Consul General Mohammad al-Otaibi had left Istanbul for Riyadh earlier that day.
Khashoggi, a US resident, The Washington Postcolumnist, and a leading critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, did not exit the consulate after entering the facility on October 2 to obtain documentation for an upcoming marriage.
Source: PressTV