A 15-member Saudi intelligence team traveled to Istanbul on private planes on the day of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance, the Turkish Daily Sabah, which publicly outed the suspected team, reports. Turkish officials say the squad entered the Saudi consulate on Oct. 2, the same day Khashoggi went to the facility to obtain documents for his marriage, and left the country soon after. Turkish authorities, who believe Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate, say security footage was taken from the consulate and Turkish staff were put on vacation at the time Khashoggi went missing.
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will meet with Saudi officials “at some point” to talk about Khashoggi’s disappearance. The United Nations human rights office urged Turkey and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to launch an investigation into what it described as the “enforced disappearance” of Khashoggi, a critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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