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Turkish police are carrying out inspections at a villa in Turkey’s Yalova province in relation to the investigation into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The police and and the gendarmerie took security measures around the two storey villa in Samanli village of Termal district, according to police sources.
The drone-backed search has been assisted by sniffer dogs, as well.
Turkish police search two villas over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Samanli village of Yalova's Termal district, northwestern Turkey province
Khashoggi killing: Police searching villas in NW Turkey
A search inside a well in the garden of one of the villas is also underway.
Two fire trucks and crime scene investigation teams have also reached the spot.
Yalova Governor Muammer Erol said that the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office will make a final statement about the search operation.
Turkish police are carrying out inspections at a villa in the northwestern province of Yalova in relation to the investigation into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Turkish police inspecting villa in Yalova in Khashoggi investigation
Turkish authorities have previously carried out inspections at Saudi Arabia's consulate and the consul general's residence in Istanbul as part of the investigation.
It was reported last month that investigators had widened their search to Yalova and a forest on the outskirts of Istanbul for the remains of the journalist.
Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and columnist for The Washington Post, went missing after entering the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.
After initially saying he had left the consulate alive, weeks later the Saudi administration admitted he was killed there, blaming a rogue group of Saudi operatives.
The killing of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and a critic of the crown prince, has strained Saudi Arabia's ties with the West and battered Prince Mohammed's image abroad.
U.S. Republican Senator Mike Lee on Sunday said he "disagrees" with President Donald Trump's dismissal of CIA assessment that Saudi crown prince ordered murder of Jamal Khashoggi.Lee was speaking in an interview on NBC News in response to Trump’s Thursday remarks that the CIA "did not come to a conclusion" about Mohammed bin Salman's involvement in the murder."I disagree with the President's assessment. It's inconsistent with the intelligence I've seen," said Lee. "Intelligence I've seen suggests this was ordered by the crown prince."Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and columnist for The Washington Post, went missing after entering the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.After initially saying he had left the consulate alive, weeks later the Saudi administration admitted he was killed there, blaming a rogue group of Saudi operatives.Khashoggi's murder also put a spotlight into Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, with US lawmakers pushing the Trump administration to stop its support for the Kingdom as a punishment for the killing.Lee said the war in Yemen is "unauthorized" and "unconstitutional" from the U.S. standpoint."This is not an ally that deserves this kind of military intervention, especially because there’s been no connection between the safety of the American people and our involvement in this war," said the senator."I believe this is an opportunity for Congress to weigh in and say let’s hold our efforts in Yemen," he added.According to the UN, Yemen is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. As the conflict enters its fourth year, around 14 million people in Yemen, or half the total population of the country, are at risk of famine.As many as 85,000 children under the age of 5 in Yemen have starved to death since the war began, Save the Children, a rights group, reported on Wednesday.
Khashoggi murder: Senator 'disagrees' with Trump on CIA
A senior Saudi prince cast doubt upon the reported CIA finding that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month, saying the agency could not be counted on to reach a credible conclusion."The CIA is not necessarily the highest standard of veracity or accuracy in assessing situations. The examples of that are multitude," Prince Turki al-Faisal, a senior member of the royal family, told journalists in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.The prince, a former Saudi intelligence chief who has also served as ambassador to the United States, said the agency's conclusion that Iraq possessed chemical weapons before the U.S. invasion in 2003 showed it could be unreliable."That was the most glaring of inaccurate and wrong assessments, which led to a full-scale war with thousands being killed," he said, speaking at an event hosted by the New York-based Beirut Institute."I don't see why the CIA is not on trial in the United States. This is my answer to their assessment of who is guilty and who is not and who did what in the consulate in Istanbul."The CIA has concluded that Prince Mohammed ordered the operation to kill Khashoggi, as first reported by the Washington Post, and briefed other parts of the U.S. government on its findings, sources told Reuters last week.U.S. President Donald Trump has disputed that the agency reached a conclusion on the murder, saying instead "they have feelings certain ways."A Turkish newspaper also reported on Thursday that CIA director Gina Haspel signaled to Turkish officials that the agency had a recording of a call in which the crown prince gave instructions to "silence" the journalist.Khashoggi was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 in an operation that Turkish authorities have said was ordered by the highest level of Saudi leadership, prompting the kingdom's biggest political crisis in a generation.After offering numerous contradictory explanations, Riyadh said Khashoggi was killed and his body dismembered after negotiations to persuade him to return to Saudi Arabia failed.The kingdom's public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for five suspects charged in the murder, but has said Prince Mohammed had no prior knowledge of the operation. 
Senior Saudi prince says CIA cannot be trusted on Khashoggi conclusion