Police are searching a villa in northwest Turkey in connection with the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The villa is in the village of Samanli, in Yalova province in the Marmara region, about 56 miles south of Istanbul. Last month President Erdogan mentioned Yalova as one of the areas a group of Saudis scouted before Khashoggi was killed.
This is the first search law enforcement officials have made public since locations were searched last month, including the Saudi consulate, the consul general’s residence, and a forest on the outskirts of Istanbul.
Khashoggi, a former Saudi royal insider who became a critic of the country’s government, went missing in early October after he visited the country’s Istanbul consulate to obtain papers for his impending marriage.
