There are still a lot of unknowns about the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in his country’s İstanbul Consulate on October 2 but there is enough to update the case based on the publicized information so far. Those might change along the way as new evidence comes up, most importantly the dead body
Saudi Arabia’s state TV reported late on Oct 19 that Riyadh has admitted that the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in Saudi Consulate General in Istanbul on Oct 2 where he went to get reportedly his divorce documents confirmed. The Saudi explanation is that Khashoggi was killed in a “fist fight” with consulate officials.
Murat Yetkin Enis Berberoğlu, a former veteran journalist and an MP of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), was released from Istanbul’s Maltepe Prison late Sept. 20, after a ruling by the Court of Cassation which approved the five-year and 10-month sentence for Berberoğlu but withheld it until the end of his term in