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\nSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will visit Turkey on June 22, a senior Turkish official told AFP Friday, as Ankara and Riyadh move on from the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
\nIt is Prince Mohammed\u2019s first visit to Turkey since the brutal killing of Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, which shocked the world and dealt a heavy blow to ties between the regional rivals.
\nThe details of the visit will be announced \u201cover the weekend\u201d, the official said.
\nThe two countries will sign several agreements during the trip, which is expected to be in the capital Ankara, but the location is yet to be confirmed, the official added.
\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had already paid a visit to Saudi Arabia in late April, where he met the prince before travelling to Mecca.
\nThe pair \u201creviewed the Saudi-Turkish relations and ways to develop them in all fields\u201d, Saudi state news agency SPA said at the time.
\nSaudi agents killed and dismembered Khashoggi, an insider turned critic, in the kingdom\u2019s Istanbul consulate in October 2018. His remains have never been found.
\nErdogan previously said the \u201chighest levels\u201d of the Saudi government ordered the killing and Turkey angered the Saudis by vigorously pursuing the case, opening an investigation and briefing international media about the lurid details of the murder.
\nTurkey already had strained relations with Saudi Arabia because of its support to Qatar during the Riyadh-led blockade on the Gulf state but relations were frozen for three years after Khashoggi\u2019s killing.
\nSaudi Arabia responded at the time with an unofficial boycott of Turkish imports, putting pressure on Turkey\u2019s economy.
\nNow with high inflation and a cost-of-living crisis a year before a presidential election, Erdogan is seeking backing from Gulf countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ankara Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will visit Turkey on June 22, a senior Turkish official told AFP Friday, as Ankara and Riyadh move on from the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. It is Prince Mohammed\u2019s first visit to Turkey since the brutal killing of Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6724,1385,606],"class_list":{"0":"post-266630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"tag-saudi-crown-prince","9":"tag-turkey","10":"tag-visit"},"yoast_head":"\n