"Erdoğan discussed the reaction of Khashoggi's murder with Trump"



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US. President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan discussed how to respond to the badbadination of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi last month, a White House official said Sunday. The conversation took place at a dinner with the heads of state gathered in Paris on the occasion of the centenary of the armistice of the First World War.

Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was murdered by a team at the Kingdom's consulate in Istanbul. sent from Riyadh. The Saudi authorities acknowledged that the killing was premeditated, but his body was not found.

Erdoğan revealed Saturday that audio recordings of the murder had been given to the US, French, German and British governments, adding that the operation had been ordered to the "highest levels" of the Saudi government.

Determination of responsibilities

M. Trump is expecting to form a "much tougher opinion" next week on Khashoggi's badbadination and Washington's response, he said on Nov. 7 – adding that he was working with Congress, Turkey and Saudi Arabia to establish the identity of responsibilities.

million. Erdoğan said for the first time that recordings related to the killing of Khashoggi had been shared with Saudi Arabia, the United States, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.

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