A friend of a Washington Post journalist who went missing in Istanbul has said that Turkish officials told him to make “funeral preparations” because the reporter “was killed” at the Saudi consulate. A friend of a Washington Post journalist who went missing in Istanbul has said that Turkish officials told him to make “funeral preparations” because the reporter “was killed” at the Saudi consulate. Turan Kislakci, a friend of Mr Khashoggi and the head of the Turkish-Arab Media Association, spoke to the AP on Sunday outside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. A Turkish official told the AP that an “initial assessment” by police concluded Mr Khashoggi had been killed at the consulate. Mr Khashoggi, 59, went missing while on a visit to the consulate in Istanbul for paperwork to marry his Turkish fiancee.

Source: Irish Independent October 07, 2018 17:15 UTC