What the records say
- When
- 2 Oct 2018
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 1
- Coordinates
- 41.09° N, 29.01° E
- Description
- 2018 murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Turkish soil
- Injured
- 0
Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
2018 murder in Istanbul, Turkey
On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident journalist, was killed by agents of the Saudi government at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Khashoggi was ambushed and strangled by a 15-member squad of Saudi operatives. His body was dismembered and disposed of in a manner that was never publicly revealed.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, triggering a diplomatic crisis for Saudi Arabia”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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