Jamal Khashoggi, 59, was killed shortly after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain paperwork for his upcoming marriage
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Pic/AFP
A Turkish prosecutor has demanded that arrest warrants be issued against two Saudi nationals close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Turkish source close to the investigation said on Wednesday.
Khashoggi, 59, was killed shortly after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain paperwork for his upcoming marriage. The chief prosecutor's office in Istanbul filed an application on Tuesday to obtain the warrants for Ahmad al- Assiri and Saud al-Qahtani, described in court documents as being 'among the planners' of the murder of the Washington Post contributor Khashoggi.
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Assiri often sat in during Prince Mohammed's closed door meetings with visiting foreign dignitaries and Qahtani was a key counsellor to the crown prince. Both were sacked after Riyadh admitted Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate. According to Turkey, a 15- member Saudi team was sent to Istanbul to kill Khashoggi.
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