Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled soon after he entered the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul earlier this month and his body was dismembered, the office of the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor said on Wednesday.

In a press statement, the Chief Prosecutor's office said that talks with Saudi Arabia's Public Prosecutor Saud Al Mojeb "ended with no concrete results". It said that the Saudi authorities did not release any statement regarding a local collaborator in the Khashoggi murder, Yenisafak newspaper reported.