Hindustan Times (Bathinda)

The diplomatic crisis

Here’s how events unfolded since the journalist went missing last month

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OCTOBER 2: Jamal Khashoggi enters the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to collect documents ahead of his wedding. When he doesn’t emerge from the embassy, his fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, calls up friends

OCTOBER 3: Mohammad bin Salman, Saudi Crown Prince, says Khashoggi had left the consulate "a few minutes or an hour" after he arrived OCTOBER 6: Turkish officials say Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate

OCTOBER 15: Turkish investigat­ors enter the consulate to conduct a search

OCTOBER 19: Saudi Arabia admits Khashoggi died in the consulate. The country's public prosecutor says he died after an altercatio­n and a fistfight. Saudis say they detained 18 people in connection to the death

OCTOBER 21: Saudi Arabia's foreign minister says Khashoggi was killed in a rogue operation inside the consulate

OCTOBER 31: Turkish prosecutor says Khashoggi was strangled after he entered the consulate, then dismembere­d

NOVEMBER 2: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the order to murder Khashoggi came from the highest levels of the Saudi government

NOVEMBER 11: Erdogan lets Saudi Arabia, US, Germany, France and UK listen to tape recordings taken during Khashoggi's killing

NOVEMBER 17: CIA reportedly concludes the Saudi crown prince had ordered Khashoggi’s murder.

 ?? REUTERS ?? A woman holding a banner of Jamal Khashoggi attends a symbolic funeral prayer at Fatih mosque in Istanbul.
REUTERS A woman holding a banner of Jamal Khashoggi attends a symbolic funeral prayer at Fatih mosque in Istanbul.
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