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Turkey detains 90 for suspected links to Kurdish rebels

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Security guards stand outside the Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018. Turkey said Tuesday it will search the consulate as it investigates why journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a contributor to the Washington Post, vanished there Oct. 2, an extraordinary probe of a diplomatic post amid Turkish officials' fears the writer had been killed inside the building. Saudi officials said he left the building unharmed.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Turkish media: Video shows team of alleged Saudi assassins

By AYSE WIETING and SUZAN FRASER and JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

A journalist holding a poster of missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, speaks to camera near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018. Khashoggi, 59, went missing on Oct 2 while on a visit to the consulate in Istanbul for paperwork to marry his Turkish fiancée. The consulate insists the writer left its premises, contradicting Turkish officials. He had been living since last year in the U.S. in a self-imposed exile, in part due to the rise of Prince Mohammed, the son of King Salman. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

The Latest: Paul to push for halting arms sales to Saudis

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The entrance to the Saudi Arabia Consulate in Istanbul, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018. Turkey has summoned the Saudi ambassador to request the kingdom's &quot;full cooperation&quot; in an investigation into the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who Turkish officials say was killed while visiting the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. The 59-year-old Khashoggi went missing last Tuesday while visiting the consulate for paperwork to marry his Turkish fiancee. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Turkey to search Saudi Consulate for missing journalist

By Ayse Wieting, Suzan Fraser and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

A journalist holding a poster of missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, speaks to camera near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018. Khashoggi, 59, went missing on Oct 2 while on a visit to the consulate in Istanbul for paperwork to marry his Turkish fiancée. The consulate insists the writer left its premises, contradicting Turkish officials. He had been living since last year in the U.S. in a self-imposed exile, in part due to the rise of Prince Mohammed, the son of King Salman. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

The Latest: Trump, Ryan concerned by Khashoggi disappearance

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FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 5, 2018 file photo, Tawakkol Karman, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 2011 holds a picture of missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi as she speaks to journalists near the Saudi Arabia consulate, in Istanbul, Turkey. Khashoggi was a Saudi insider. He rubbed shoulders with the Saudi royal family and supported its efforts to nudge the entrenched ultraconservative clerics to accept reforms. He was a close aide to the kingdom’s former spy chief and was a leading voice in the country’s prominent dailies. In a dramatic twist of fate, Khashoggi disappeared on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, after visiting his country’s consulate in Istanbul and may have been killed there. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)

Missing Saudi journalist once a voice of reform in kingdom

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, his wife, Emine Erdogan, second right, Hungarian President Janos Ader and his wife Anita Herczegh pose for the photographers on the terrace of the presidential Alexander Palace in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018. Erdogan is paying a two-day official visit to Hungary. (Tamas Kovacs/MTI via AP)

Hungary’s Orban says EU ‘insincere’ with Turkey on accession

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FILE -- In this Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018 file photo, fighters with the Free Syrian army patrol the outskirts of the northern town of Jisr al-Shughur, Syria, west of the city of Idlib. Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency news agency said Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, that Syrian rebels have finished withdrawing all their heavy weapons from the front lines in the northwestern province of Idlib. The move was part of a deal reached between Russia and Turkey to demilitarize the front lines between Syrian government forces and the opposition in and around the province. Idlib is the last major rebel stronghold in Syria. (Ugur Can/DHA via AP, File)

Turkey says Syrian rebels withdraw heavy weapons in Idlib

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Turan Kislakci, head of Turkish-Arab journalist Association and friend of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, talks to The Associated Press outside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. A Saudi journalist who has written Washington Post columns critical of the kingdom's assertive crown prince has gone missing after visiting the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, the newspaper said Wednesday, raising concerns over his safety. Jamal Khashoggi, 59, is a longtime Saudi journalist, foreign correspondent, editor and columnist whose work has been controversial in the past in the ultraconservative Sunni kingdom. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

The Latest: Turkey’s president says he hopes Saudi writer OK

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FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2014 file photo, Jamal Khashoggi, then general manager of a new Arabic news channel speaks during a press conference, in Manama, Bahrain. Khashoggi was a Saudi insider. He rubbed shoulders with the Saudi royal family and supported its efforts to nudge the entrenched ultraconservative clerics to accept reforms. He was a close aide to the kingdom’s former spy chief and was a leading voice in the country’s prominent dailies. In a dramatic twist of fate, Khashoggi disappeared on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, after visiting his country’s consulate in Istanbul and may have been killed there. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

Missing Saudi journalist once a voice of reform in kingdom

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Turan Kislakci, head of Turkish-Arab journalist Association and friend of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, talks to The Associated Press outside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. A Saudi journalist who has written Washington Post columns critical of the kingdom's assertive crown prince has gone missing after visiting the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, the newspaper said Wednesday, raising concerns over his safety. Jamal Khashoggi, 59, is a longtime Saudi journalist, foreign correspondent, editor and columnist whose work has been controversial in the past in the ultraconservative Sunni kingdom. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Friend: Saudi journalist ‘killed’ at consulate in Istanbul

By MEHMET GUZEL and SUZAN FRASER and JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Holding a picture of missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, Tawakkol Karman, of Yemen the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 2011, talks to members of the media near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, Friday, Oct. 5, 2018. Khashoggi, a 59-year-old veteran journalist who has lived in self-imposed exile in the U.S. since Prince Mohammed's rise to power, disappeared Oct. 2 while on a visit to the consulate to get paperwork done to be married to his Turkish fiancée. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Washington Post: Turkish officials say Saudi writer killed

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and SARAH EL DEEB and JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Holding a picture of missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, Tawakkol Karman, of Yemen the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 2011, talks to members of the media near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, Friday, Oct. 5, 2018. Khashoggi, a 59-year-old veteran journalist who has lived in self-imposed exile in the U.S. since Prince Mohammed's rise to power, disappeared Oct. 2 while on a visit to the consulate to get paperwork done to be married to his Turkish fiancée. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

The Latest: Post says Turks think writer slain at consulate

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ExxonMobil Senior Vice President Neil Chapman speaks to the media after a meeting with Cyprus' president Nicos Anastasiades at the presidential palace in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday Oct. 5, 2018. Chapman says the energy company will go ahead with a search for natural gas off the cost of Cyprus by the end of the year. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

ExxonMobil to drill off coast of Cyprus; Turkey protests

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

Erdogan: Turkey could hold vote on pursuing EU membership

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A crater is seen at the scene of a blast near the town of Gercus in the majority-Kurdish province of Batman, southeastern Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. A senior Turkish official says that Kurdish rebels have detonated an explosive device on a road in southeast Turkey, killing at least seven soldiers. Two other soldiers have been wounded in the attack. The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has waged a more than three-decade old insurgency in Turkey's mostly Kurdish southeast region. (DHA via AP)

7 Turkish soldiers killed in blast blamed on Kurdish rebels

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Turkey says ‘Nazi remnant’ dispute with Dutch has ended

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A Turkish police officer patrols outside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. A Saudi journalist who has written Washington Post columns critical of the kingdom's assertive crown prince has gone missing after visiting the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, the newspaper said Wednesday, raising concerns over his safety. Khashoggi, 59, is a longtime Saudi journalist, foreign correspondent, editor and columnist whose work has been controversial in the past in the ultraconservative Sunni kingdom. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Saudis insist missing Post contributor left Turkey consulate

By JON GAMBRELL and AYSE WIETING - Associated Press

Iraqi Kurds participate in parliamentary elections in Irbil, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018. Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region held long-delayed parliamentary elections on Sunday, a year after a vote for independence sparked a punishing backlash from Baghdad, leaving Kurdish leaders deeply divided. (AP Photo/Salar Salim)

Iraq Kurds far from independence despite referendum

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Turkey renews mandate for military operations in Syria, Iraq

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