Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud held a telephone call to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in which he expressed his thanks for the Turkish president's welcome to the Kingdom's proposal to form a joint working team to discuss the disappearance of Saudi citizen Jamal Khashoggi.

The Saudi monarch emphasized the Kingdom's keenness on its relations with Turkey, as far as the brotherly Republic of Turkey is concerned, and that no one will get the strength of this relationship.

For his part, the Turkish President stressed his appreciation for the historic and distinguished brotherly relations between the two countries and the two brotherly peoples and his keenness to strengthen and develop them.