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Audio evidence related to the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi contains appalling details of the crime, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said, as he continues to pile pressure on the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. [19659002] Erdoğan's latest intervention came to the New York Times reported that a member of the Saudi hit team dispatched to Istanbul to kill Khashoggi told the story of Prince Mohammed, and a Turkish newspaper published x-ray images of the team's luggage, which included defibrillators and syringes.
The audio recordings shocked to Saudi intelligence official, Erdoğan told reporters on his return to Ankara on Monday night from the first world war commemorations in France
"We played the recordings on this murder to everyone" who wanted them from us. Our intelligence organization did not hide anything. We Saudis, USA, France, Canada, Germany, Britain, "he said. "The recordings are really appalling. Indeed, when the Saudi intelligence officer said he was so shocked he said: 'This one must have taken heroin, only someone who would take care of this'.
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Erdoğan said Turkey was "waiting patiently" for Prince Mohammed, Saudi Arabia's de facto leader, to shed more light on the circumstance Khashoggi's death.
The respected Washington Post columnist and critic of Prince Mohammed was killed by a team of Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul last month. His body, which investigators believed was cut up and dissolved in the aftermath of the general consulate,
Turkey has maintained its position as one of the highest levels of Saudi Arabia, steadily leaking cranesome details from
It was clear the House of Saud was involved in Khashoggi's killing, Erdoğan reiterated in comments to the tabloid Yeni Şafak on Tuesday, but he did not think King Salman, for whom he "1965, 1965" "It must be revealed who gave them [the Saudi team] the order to murder," Erdoğan said.
Khashoggi's disappearance, the kingdom said he had died in a fight, before changing his story back to the Turkish investigation's findings.
A man speaks during a commemorative ceremony for Jamal Khashoggi on 11 November in Istanbul. Photograph: Chris McGrath / Getty Images
Khashoggi's death has created the biggest diplomatic crisis for Riyadh since 9/11, reigniting a debate about arms sales in the country, its human rights record and the war in Yemen – but little concrete action has been taken by western powers so far
The UK foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, traveled to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi on Monday for talks on both the Khashoggi investigation and the violence in Hodeidah, a key port city in Yemen.
Ankara's most damning evidence has come from audio recordings from the consulate which it was supposed to be obtained by Turkish intelligence officers who hacked the Saudi hit team's communications.
On Monday, the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, became the first western leader to confirm the tapes' existence, telling reporters in Paris that Canadian officials had listened to them.
The New York Times, quoting sources familiar with the recording, reported that the hit team's leader, Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb – a security officer who has traveled with Prince Mohammed – picked up a phone at the consulate to say "tell your boss" the operation had been successful. The paper said Turkish intelligence officers had told US officials they believed Mutreb was speaking to one of the prince's helpers, and that US intelligence officials believed "your boss" was a reference to Mohammed.
On Tuesday, the Turkish pro-government newspaper Sabah published photos of what it said were traveling to Istanbul via Atatürk airport. They showed syringes, electric shock devices, wide scissors, staple guns, walkie-talkies and a signal jammer. The bags were not searched because they were traveling under diplomatic immunity.
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