U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the U.S. President Donald Trump have held a phone conversation on slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Turkey's presidential press office said early Monday.
According to a statement by the presidential press office, Erdoğan and Trump agreed on the Khashoggi case need to be cleared up with all aspects.
Khashoggi was last seen on Oct. 2 when he entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
After days of denying to know his whereabouts, Saudi Arabia on Saturday claimed Khashoggi died during a fight inside the consulate.
On the day of Khashoggi’s disappearance, 15 other Saudis, including several officials, arrived in Istanbul on two planes and visited the consulate while he was still inside, according to Turkish police sources. All of the identified individuals have since left Turkey.
A joint Turkish-Saudi team completed an investigation into the case on Thursday after searching the residence of the consul general as well as the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
President Erdoğan earlier on Sunday said that he will make a statement on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Tuesday during his party's group meeting at the parliament.
The sources also said that two leaders' phone conversation included pastor Andrew Brunson, cooperation in fight against terrorism and the roadmap on Syria's Manbij.
A leading Republican U.S. senator said on Sunday he believed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was responsible for the death of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and the Saudis have lost all credibility in their explanations of his death."Yes, I think he did it," Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in an interview with CNN's "State of the Union." Kremlin says we want answers from Washington over arms treaty plan
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Foreigners sold a net 4.01 billion riyal ($1.07 billion) in Saudi stocks in the week ending Oct. 18, exchange data showed on Sunday - one of the biggest selloff since the market opened to direct foreign buying in mid-2015.The selloff came during a week when investors were rattled by Saudi Arabia's deteriorating relations with foreign powers following the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.Riyadh said on Saturday that Khashoggi died in a fight inside its Istanbul consulate, its first acknowledgement of his death after denying for two weeks that it was involved in his disappearance.A breakdown of the data showed foreigners sold 5 billion riyals worth of stocks and bought 991.3 million worth.The Saudi stock market is down about 4 percent since Khashoggi's disappeared. The market had started to weaken before the incident as foreign funds slowed their buying after MSCI's announcement in June that the kingdom will be included in its global emerging market benchmark next year.As of Sunday, the Saudi index was up 5 percent so far this year, but down 5 percent this quarter.($1 = 3.7518 riyals) 
Foreigners sold net $1.1 bln of Saudi stocks in week to Oct 18
Siemens boss Joe Kaeser came under pressure from senior German politicians on Sunday to pull out of an investment conference in Saudi Arabia next week following Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death.Many business executives including the heads of Deutsche Bank, Uber Technologies and Siemens rival ABB have dropped out of Riyadh's Future Investment Initiative conference amid outrage about Khashoggi's fate.The leader of the Social Democrats (SPD), Andrea Nahles, called on Kaeser to follow the example of other executives and cancel his plans to attend the conference."I hope that Joe Kaeser will rethink this," she told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.Germany calls into question arms sales to Saudi over Khashoggi deathForeign Minister Heiko Maas, also from the SPD, told German public television on Saturday evening that cancellations sent the right signal."I certainly wouldn't participate in an event in Riyadh at the moment," he said. "And I have great understanding for those who have cancelled."Norbert Roettgen, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union who chairs the German parliamentary foreign affairs committee, also urged Kaeser to skip the event.Amid scepticism, Saudi official provides another version of Khashoggi death"This applies in my view, for example, to the Siemens CEO who has confirmed his attendance," he told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.A spokesman for Siemens said Kaeser had not yet decided whether to attend the conference. He said he expected Kaeser to make a decision on Sunday.The engineering conglomerate has won orders to supply gas turbines, power plant components and trains to Saudi Arabia. Last year, it signed a declaration of intent to work with Saudi authorities to equip infrastructure projects which Siemens said could be worth at least a billion euros.Merkel and Maas have reacted strongly to Saudi Arabia's admission that Khashoggi died in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, condemning the killing and demanding Riyadh make clear what happened.($1 = 0.8686 euros) Merkel demands full facts on Khashoggi’s killing
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Saudi Arabia's admission that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed at its Istanbul consulate was welcome "progress", but urged the kingdom to follow through with a full and transparent investigation."I note that the Saudi authorities have changed tack, admitted the facts and accepted some responsibility, so we're making progress," Le Maire said on France 3 television on Sunday. "But full light needs to be shed."How bilateral relations develop from here will "depend on the way the truth is aired, the investigation conducted and the results established," Le Maire said."If they continue in this direction by establishing the truth with a full investigation, I believe we can maintain our strong strategic relationship with Saudi Arabia," he added."If that doesn't happen, nobody will understand - neither France nor the European Union nor the United States. Saudi Arabia is a strategic partner, but we can't have a trusting relationship that isn't grounded in truth."Kuwait welcomes decisions by Saudi king on 'regretful' Khashoggi caseSaudi explanation of Khashoggi death not credible: British ministerKhashoggi saw Turkey as key country in new Middle East
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Saudi Arabia's explanation of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at its consulate in Istanbul is not credible, Britain's Brexit minister Dominic Raab said on Sunday.After denying any involvement in the disappearance of Khashoggi, 59, for two weeks, Saudi Arabia on Saturday morning said he had died in a fistfight at the consulate. An hour later, another Saudi official attributed the death to a chokehold.Asked during an interview on BBC TV if he believed the explanation, Raab said: "No, I don’t think it is credible ... We support the Turkish investigation into it and the British government will want to see people held to account for that death."Khashoggi saw Turkey as key country in new Middle EastUK Brexit minister Raab says open-minded on extending post-Brexit transition
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