ISTANBUL – Turkey has released the pictures of dead body of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Tuesday, in a blow to Saudi Arabia.
Turkish police and investigators searched a villa near Samanli on the outskirts of Istanbul on Monday in the ongoing probe.
According to Irfan Fidan, Istanbul’s chief prosecutor, the Saudi citizen living in one of the two villas has been identified as Mohammed Ahmad A. Alfaozan.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a Turkish official told media that Alfaozan is a Saudi Arabian businessman who left Turkey after the murder and has not returned back to the country.
Investigators are also investigating a telephone conversation between one member of the assassination team that allegedly killed Khashoggi and a resident at the property on Oct. 1 – a day before Khashoggi went missing.
“The communication has been considered to be about the disposal or hiding of Khashoggi’s corpse,” the statement said.
Police spent around 10 hours searching the villa – with sniffer dogs and a drone – for the journalist’s remains without saying if any evidence or trace had been found or not.
On October 2, Khashoggi was disappeared after he stepped into Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul for paperwork to allow him to get married to his Turkish fiancee Hatice Cengiz.
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He never appeared from the building and after weeks of denial, Saudi Arabia finally admitted that the journalist was killed in a fist fight though Turkish president Erdogan claimed that Khashoggi was murdered in a planned fashion.
The Oil-rich kingdom has shaken up the administrative set up following the death of Jamal Khashoggi and eighteen Saudis have been arrested in connection with the case including a top intelligence official, Maj. Gen. Ahmed al-Assiri; Saud al-Qahtani, a close aide to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and royal court advisor Abdullah Al-Qahtani.
