Turkey says it will conduct a search of Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul over the missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The
country's foreign ministry said Saudi Arabia was "open to co-operation"
and a requested search of the building could now go ahead as part of
the investigation. Mr Khashoggi was last seen visiting the consulate last week and Turkey says he may have been murdered there.
Saudi Arabia denies the suggestion.
It says the journalist left the consulate shortly after arriving, while Turkey says he was not seen leaving the building.
- despite not giving evidence of the claim he was killed inside.
A critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Mr Khashoggi was living in self-imposed exile in the US and writing opinion pieces for the Washington Post before his disappearance.
BBC Newshour interviewed the journalist just three days before his visit to the consulate, and in an off-air conversation asked if he would ever return to his home country.
"I don't think I'll be able to go home," he told the BBC, saying that in Saudi Arabia "the people who are arrested are not even dissidents" and saying he wished he had a platform at home to write and speak freely at this time of "great transformation" in his country.
, saying that although it would not normally do so, it had decided to make an exception "in light of the circumstances".
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