State television TRT reported that Turkish crime scene investigators inspected the vehicle on Tuesday for possible evidence in the slaying of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Authorities discovered the car at an underground garage on Monday. They have not yet found the journalist's body.
The search of the vehicle in the car park has been halted and will resume on Wednesday morning, CNN Turk reported.
Turkish officials suspect Khashoggi was killed and dismembered inside the consulate by Saudi agents on October 2. He did not appear to be carrying belongings when he entered the consulate on that day, according to video footage.
Saudi officials had planned Khashoggi's murder days in advance: Turkish President Erdogan
Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said Saudi officials had planned murder of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi days before his death and called on Saudi Arabia government to allow trial of suspects in Istanbul. "A team of Saudi agents began arriving in Turkey the day before journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed and cameras at the consulate were removed," he said.
Meanwhile, foreign ministers from the G7 group of industrialized nations say the explanations offered for the killing of the Saudi journalist leave many questions unanswered and those responsible for the death must be held to account.
A joint statement from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, along with the European Union, condemned Khashoggi's slaying in the "strongest possible terms."
They called Saudi Arabia's confirmation of the writer's death inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul a first step toward full transparency and accountability
from Times of India https://ift.tt/2R54158
