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Jamal Khashoggi contains appalling details of the crime, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said, as he continues to pile on the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
Erdoğan's latest intervention came to the New York Times reported that a member of the Saudi hit team traveled to Istanbul to kill Khashoggi told the story of Prince Mohammed, 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, where he said the killing was discussed with his US, French and German counterparts.
"We played the recordings about 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 was told that he was so shocked he said: 'This one must have taken heroin, only someone who takes heroin would do this'. "
Erdoğan said Turkey was "waiting patiently" for Prince Mohammed, Saudi Arabia's de facto leader, Khashoggi's death.
The respected Washington Post columnist and critic of Prince Mohammed was killed by a team of men who flew from Riyadh to ambush him during a marriage at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last month. His body, which investigators believed was cut up and dissolved in acid at the nearby consul general's house, has not been found.
Turkey has maintained its position as one of the highest levels of the Saudi government, steadily leaking the details of the criminal investigation which undermines the Saudi version of events.
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 had "limitless respect", could be behind such a crime.
"It must be revealed who gets them [the Saudi team] the order to murder, "Erdoğan said.
After two weeks of denying it had anything to do with Khashoggi's disappearance, the kingdom said he had died in a fight, before changing its story to the Turkish investigation.
Khashoggi's death has created the biggest diplomatic crisis for Riyadh since 9/11, reigniting a debate about arms sales to 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 has been approved by Saudi 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 existence, telling reporters in Paris that Canadian officials had listened to them.
The New York Times, Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, quoted by the New York Times, quoted by the press as saying that he was a security officer. been successful. The paper said Turkish intelligence officers had told US officials they believed Mutreb was speaking to one of the helpers, and that US intelligence officials believed "your boss" was a reference to Mohammed.
On Tuesday, the Turkish pro-government Sabah newspaper published photos of what it said were Saudi Arabia's Istanbul-based teams 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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