Turkey on Wednesday said Saudi Arabia needed to be transparent with the international community about the investigation into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and that Ankara would willingly take part in an international probe.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu made the comments to reporters while on a visit to Brussels. The United Nations human rights chief on Wednesday called for an international investigation to determine who was responsible for the murder of the Saudi journalist in Istanbul two months ago.
"We will not hesitate to launch an international probe if the situation comes to a deadlock,” he said.
U.S. President Donald Trump told Turkey's Tayyip Erdoğan that he didn't want any problems with the sale of F-35 fighter jets to Ankara, Turkish Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu said.
"Turkey saw no issues in procuring the Lockheed Martin jets despite efforts in the U.S. Congress to block the sale. Trump made the comment to Erdoğan during talks at a recent G20 summit," Çavuşoğlu added.
The U.S. Senate has demanded a block on the sales of the jets to Turkey unless Trump certifies that Turkey is not threatening NATO, purchasing defence equipment from Russia or detaining U.S. citizens.
