UN human rights expert to visit Turkey over journalist Khashoggi murder

The United Nations is dispatching a human rights expert to Turkey to inquire about the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Agnes Callamard, the UN expert on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary killings, will head an independent international inquiry.

Starting with a weeklong visit to Turkey on Monday, Callamard will evaluate the circumstances surrounding Khashoggi's murder from a human rights perspective.

Khashoggi, who wrote critically



about the Saudi Crown Prince, was killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October last year.

Turkish officials have repeatedly called for an international investigation and have complained of a lack of cooperation by Riyadh.