By Berk Ozkan
ISTANBUL (AA) – Turkish and Saudi officials on Tuesday arrived at a parking lot to examine a diplomatic car belonging to the Saudi Consulate, security sources said.
Amid Turkey's efforts to illuminate the journalist Jamal Khashoggi case, Istanbul police found a diplomatic car which belongs to the Saudi Consulate with the plate number “34 CC 1736 ” in the city's Sultangazi district.
Police asked the permission of the chief prosecutor's office and the Consulate General of Saudi Arabia to examine the vehicle.
After acquiring the permissions, a delegation of Turkish and Saudi officials arrived at the parking lot.
Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post, had gone missing since entering the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.
After days of denying to know his whereabouts, Saudi Arabia on Saturday claimed Khashoggi died during a fight inside the consulate.
On the day of Khashoggi’s disappearance, 15 other Saudis, including several officials, arrived in Istanbul on two planes and visited the consulate while he was still inside, according to Turkish police sources. All of the identified individuals have since left Turkey.
A joint Turkish-Saudi team completed an investigation into the case on Thursday after searching the residence of the consul general as well as the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
