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Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Kashoggi, leaves a court in Istanbul, Friday, July 3, 2020, where the trial in absentia of two former aides of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and 18 other Saudi nationals over the 2018 killing of the Washington Post columnist had began. Turkish prosecutors have indicted the 20 Saudi nationals over Khashoggi's grisly killing at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul that cast a cloud of suspicion over Prince Mohammed and are seeking life prison terms for defendants who have all left Turkey. Saudi Arabia rejected Turkish demands for the suspects' extradition and put them on trial in Riyadh.(AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkey: Khashoggi’s fiancee appears at absent Saudis’ trial

By SUZAN FRASER and ROBERT BADENBIECK - Associated Press

In this Dec. 15, 2014, file photo, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks during a press conference in Manama, Bahrain. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

Turkish prosecutors file indictment over Jamal Khashoggi killing

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

United Nations Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard, surrounded by members of the media walks around the Saudi Consulate, background, in Istanbul, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. Callamard and her team of experts on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary killings is in Turkey for a weeklong visit over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who wrote critically about the Saudi crown prince, was killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, 2018. (Cemal Yurttas/DHA via AP)

UN rights envoy at Saudi consulate in Istanbul for Khashoggi

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

CIA Director Gina Haspel leaves the Capitol after giving a classified briefing to the House leadership about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the involvement by the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018. T (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate rebukes Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi, Yemen war

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

In this March 27, 2018 photo, author-activist Sean Penn poses for a portrait in New York to promote his novel "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff." (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP)

Sean Penn working on Jamal Khashoggi documentary

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In this Wednesday Dec. 5, 2018 photo made available Thursday by Yasin Aktay, and showing Yasin Aktay an adviser to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, with US actor Sean Penn, in Ankara, Turkey. Aktay told The Associated Press Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, Penn is in Turkey working on a documentary about the slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate on Oct. 2 in Istanbul. Aktay, who was a friend of Khashoggi's, was the first to alert authorities that the journalist had disappeared after entering the consulate. (Handout via AP)

Sean Penn working on documentary on Saudi writer’s death

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FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 2, 2018 file photo, a video image of Hatice Cengiz, fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, is played during an event to remember Khashoggi, who was killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, in Washington. Saud Al-Mojeb, Saudi Arabia’s top prosecutor, is recommending the death penalty for five suspects charged with ordering and carrying out the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi. Al-Mojeb told a press conference in Riyadh Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018, that Khashoggi’s killers had been planning the operation since September 29, three days before he was killed inside the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The Latest: Post urges independent probe in columnist slay

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks to members of the media at the airport in Ankara, Turkey before departing to France, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. Erdogan said at the news conference that officials from Saudi Arabia, the United States, Germany, France and Britain have listened to audio recordings related to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. Erdogan's comments were the first public confirmation of the existence of recordings of the Oct. 2 killing of The Washington Post columnist at the consulate. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

Erdogan: Saudi officials, others heard tapes of writer death

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a defence technology development meeting, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Turkey's state-run news agency says the Turkish military has shelled positions held by U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters across the border east of the Euphrates River in Syria, killing four Kurdish fighters and wounding six others. The attack came a day after Erdogan said Turkey has finalized plans for a &quot;comprehensive and effective&quot; operation to drive out Kurdish militia from the region.(Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

The Latest: Turkish official claims writer’s body dissolved

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Saudi Arabia's top prosecutor Saud al-Mojeb, center left, leaves his hotel to go to his country's consulate in Istanbul, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018. The Turkish fiancee of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi has called on U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders to ensure that his death in Istanbul is not covered up, while Saudi Arabia's top prosecutor on Tuesday visited the Saudi Consulate where officials from his government killed the writer. (Can Erok/DHA via AP)

The Latest: Trump says he doesn’t feel betrayed by Saudis

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Saudi Arabia's top prosecutor Saud al-Mojeb leaves his country's consulate in Istanbul, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018. The Turkish fiancee of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi has called on U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders to ensure that his death in Istanbul is not covered up, while Saudi Arabia's top prosecutor on Tuesday visited the Saudi Consulate where officials from his government killed the writer. (Can Erok/DHA via AP)

Turkish prosecutor says Saudi writer strangled, dismembered

By MEHMET GUZEL and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Saudi Arabia's top prosecutor Saud al-Mojeb leaves his country's consulate in Istanbul, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018. The Turkish fiancee of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi has called on U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders to ensure that his death in Istanbul is not covered up, while Saudi Arabia's top prosecutor on Tuesday visited the Saudi Consulate where officials from his government killed the writer. (Can Erok/DHA via AP)

Jamal Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered, Turkish prosecutor says

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In this photo released by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, shakes hands with Salah Khashoggi, a son, of Jamal Khashoggi, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. Saudi Arabia, which for weeks maintained that Jamal Khashoggi had left the Istanbul consulate, on Saturday acknowledged he was killed there in a &quot;fistfight.&quot; (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

The Latest: Turkish media say Saudi vehicle scouted forest

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Officials enter Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. Saudi officials murdered Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in their Istanbul consulate after plotting his death for days, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday, contradicting Saudi Arabia's explanation that the writer was accidentally killed. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Key moments surrounding the killing of Jamal Khashoggi

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In this photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, white smoke billows from the courtyard of Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul. A video shared by a television channel that is close to Turkey's government broadcasted on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018 appears to show three men burning documents at the Saudi Consulate's backyard a day after Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed. A Haber news channel said the surveillance camera video - allegedly showing &quot;evidence&quot; being burned inside a drum - was recorded on Oct. 3. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

The Latest: Trump calls Khashoggi killing a ‘total fiasco’

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In this photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, white smoke billows from the courtyard of Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul. A video shared by a television channel that is close to Turkey's government broadcasted on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018 appears to show three men burning documents at the Saudi Consulate's backyard a day after Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed. A Haber news channel said the surveillance camera video - allegedly showing &quot;evidence&quot; being burned inside a drum - was recorded on Oct. 3. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Turkish president: Saudis must name masterminds of killing

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, white smoke billows from the courtyard of Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul. A video shared by a television channel that is close to Turkey's government broadcasted on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018 appears to show three men burning documents at the Saudi Consulate's backyard a day after Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed. A Haber news channel said the surveillance camera video - allegedly showing &quot;evidence&quot; being burned inside a drum - was recorded on Oct. 3. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

The Latest: Mnuchin meets with embattled Saudi crown prince

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In this image made from an Oct. 18, 2018, video provided by Metafora Production, Eiad Alhaji, left, edits video in his studio as Jamal Khashoggi on a monitor speaks during an interview held in March 2018 at an undisclosed location. Eighteen days after Khashoggi disappeared, Saudi Arabia acknowledged early Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018, that the 59-year-old writer has died in what it said was a &quot;fistfight&quot; inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. (Metafora Production via AP)

Key moments surrounding the killing of Jamal Khashoggi

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Media report outside Saudi Arabia's Consulate in Istanbul, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman &quot;crossed a line&quot; in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and must pay a price. Tennessee Republican Bob Corker says that based on his briefings he believes the royal known as MBS was behind the killing of the Saudi critic. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Jamal Khashoggi case: Saudi calls, ‘body double’ after killing

By Suzan Fraser and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Barriers block the road leading to Saudi Arabia's consulate, background, in Istanbul, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018. Turkey will &quot;never allow a cover-up&quot; of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, a senior official in Turkey's ruling party said Saturday after Saudi Arabia announced hours earlier that the writer died during a &quot;fistfight&quot; in its consulate. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

The Latest: Khashoggi’s fiancée put under police protection

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