Erdogan Adviser: Khashoggi's body dissolved in acid

The body of the dead journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, was dismembered and then dissolved in an acid, according to an advisor to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "They got rid of the corpse by smashing it," Hürriyet Yasin Aktay told the newspaper. His statement coincides with a Washington Post report for which Khashoggi had written.

According to recent reports, "they dismembered the body to make it easier to disperse," Aktay said. "They wanted to make sure there was nothing left of the body." The Washington Post quoted a Turkish source as saying that "biological evidence" had been found in the garden of the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul.

Strangled shortly after entering the consulate

After weeks of denials, Saudi Arabia had acknowledged the critical journalist 's death on October 20 under international pressure, but had firstly presented it as the result of a dispute that was taking place. Was intensified. 18 suspects were arrested and a royal media consultant and the head of the secret service were removed from office.

On Wednesday, Turkish justice confirmed for the first time that Khashoggi was strangled shortly after entering the consulate and that his body was subsequently dismembered.

Khashoggi went to the Istanbul consulate in his country on October 2 to retrieve a document in favor of his marriage, but he did not come out. It is suspected that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had the eminent journalist badbadinated. Riyadh's leaders deny any involvement of the heir to the 33-year-old throne, but the case has severely damaged his reputation.