jamal khashoggi

Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor agrees with Turkey that Jamal Khashoggi was murdered — but he says the journalist died in Istanbul from a drug overdose, not at the hands of a brutal hit squad.

Turkey's leader rejected Saudi Arabia's claim that the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was an accident. He said 18 suspects under arrest in Saudi Arabia should face justice in Turkey.

The column's publication is "kind of an acknowledgement to ourselves ... that we don't have much hope that we're going to be able to edit this one with him," the Post editorial page editor told NPR.