Prince Turki bin Abdel Aziz, a brother of Saudi Arabia’s king, has died, a statement from the palace said early Saturday.Prince Turki — who was born in 1934, according to his official biography — was
a son of the kingdom’s founder, King Abdul Aziz bin Saud, and a member of a formidable bloc of brothers known as the Sudairi seven, after their mother Hassa bin Ahmed al-Sudairi.The bloc also included king Fahd and princes Sultan and Nayef, all now dead, as well as Saudi Arabia’s King Salman. Prince Turki, was once a deputy minister of defense from 1968 to 1978. King Salman is to receive condolences for three days from Saturday evening, the palace sad.
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