Saudi Arabia said on Saturday preliminary results of investigations showed U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after a fight with people he met there, state media reported.

Reuters: British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Friday that allegations regarding the case of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi would be totally unacceptable if true but any response by Britain would be "considered".

Turkey has not shared audio recordings said to document the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, its foreign minister said on Friday, dismissing reports it had passed them on to the United States.

Turkish police are searching a forest on the outskirts of Istanbul and a city near the Sea of Marmara for remains of a Saudi dissident journalist who disappeared two weeks ago after entering the Saudi consulate, two Turkish officials said.

A small group of Turkish investigators are examining the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Wednesday, a Reuters photographer said, the second such search this week of the premises after Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared two weeks ago.

A team of Turkish investigators entered the Saudi consul’s Istanbul residence on Wednesday, a Reuters cameraman at the scene said, as part of the investigation into the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Some materials at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul where journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared two weeks ago have been painted over, Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia must cooperate with the investigation into the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and let Turkish officials enter its Istanbul consulate, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday.

The New York Times newspaper pulled out as media sponsor of the "Future Investment Initiative" conference, hosted by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as a response to his county's involvement in kidnapping the prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Jamal Khashoggi believed he was safe in Turkey. Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist and newspaper editor, had lived in exile in Washington for more than a year, writing a column for the Washington Post in which he regularly criticized his country's crackdown on dissent, its war in Yemen and sanctions imposed on Qatar.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday the United States is ready to help in any way in the investigation of the disappearance of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Turkish media began publishing photos of the Saudi security team, which the Turkish authorities suspect of being responsible for the abduction of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Turkey said on Tuesday that it would search Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul where Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi vanished last week, and close ally Britain called on Riyadh to provide “urgent answers” over his disappearance.

The Saudi consulate-general in Istanbul Mohammed Al-Otaibi said the consulate cameras didn’t record any footage for the entering of Saudi author Jamal Khashoggi who disappeared 5 days ago.

Qatar announced pumping investment of $15 billion in Turkey across a number of projects, after talks between Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Turkey will drain the “terror swamp” in northern Iraq’s Qandil region, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.

Turkey’s Metcap Energy Investments and Qatar’s Fusion Dynamics will invest a total of $5.2 billion in Turkey, the companies said in a joint statement on Monday.

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey had begun operations in Iraq’s Sinjar region, an area where it has threatened a military incursion, two days after sources said Kurdish PKK militants would withdraw from the area.

The US Central Command denied on Sunday (March 25, 2018) reports it was leaving the military bases in Qatar and Turkey.

The Turkish Industry and Business Association (TUSIAD) revealed that the size of trade exchange between Bahrain and Turkey has currently reached half million USD, at a time it seeks to increase the mutual investment size to one billion USD.