BFF-36 Turkey won’t ‘give up’ on Khashoggi murder probe: minister

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Turkey won’t ‘give up’ on Khashoggi murder probe: minister

DOHA, Dec 15, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Turkey’s foreign minister said Saturday his
country would “not give up” on finding out the truth about the murder of
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul.

“We haven’t received any new information or outcome of the investigation
from the Saudi side,” Mevlut Cavusoglu said on the sidelines of a conference
in Turkish ally Qatar.

“Turkey will not give up on this, we will go to the end.”

Earlier this month, the minister said Turkey was in talks over a possible
United Nations investigation into the October 2 murder, which has provoked
global outrage.

The 59-year-old Khashoggi, a palace insider turned critic of the Saudi
regime, was strangled and his body cut into pieces by a 15-strong Saudi hit
squad, according to Turkish officials.

The US Senate gave its unopposed backing on Thursday to a resolution
holding the kingdom’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,
responsible for the murder after the Central Intelligence Agency reportedly
concluded he gave the orders.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the killing was
ordered at the highest levels of the Saudi government, although he has
repeatedly absolved the ageing King Salman.

BSS/AFP/FI/ 1838 hrs