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Turkey said it shared recordings related to the murder of journalist and writer Jamal Khashoggi with the United States, the United Kingdom, Saudis and others.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated that he claimed that Saudi Arabia knew who had killed Khashoggi.
Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi leaders, was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October.
Saudi Arabia admitted that he was assassinated on the spot, but denied suggestions that his royal family would be involved.
He had originally claimed that the author had left the consulate unscathed.
The Saudis have also denied the words allegedly made by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, describing Khashoggi as a dangerous Islamist.
The phone call to the White House would have taken place before Saudi Arabia admitted that Khashoggi had been killed.
What do we know about murder?
There is still no consensus on Khashoggi's death. He entered the consulate to sort the documents of his marriage.
At first, the Turkish media had quoted sources according to which Turkey had audio recordings proving that Khashoggi had been tortured before being murdered.
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Last week, however, Turkey declared that he had been strangled immediately after entering the consulate and that his body had been dismembered "in accordance with plans made in advance".
No bodies were found and a Turkish official said that he had been disbanded.
Saudi Arabia has changed accounts for what happened to Khashoggi.
At the time of his first disappearance, Khashoggi had come out alive from the building. He later admitted that he had been murdered, claiming that the murder had been premeditated and resulted from a "dishonest operation".
He arrested 18 suspects who, according to the newspaper, will be prosecuted in Saudi Arabia. Turkey wants the suspects to be extradited.
Turkey has not publicly accused Saudi Arabia of being responsible for this assassination.
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Prince Mohammed condemned the killing of Khashoggi
"We gave the recordings, we gave them to Saudi Arabia, Washington, the Germans, the French, the English," President Erdogan said in a televised speech on Saturday.
No other country has admitted to having heard the said recording.
Who was Jamal Khashoggi?
For decades, he has been close to the Saudi royal family and has also served as an adviser to the government.
But he fell out of favor and exiled to the United States last year. From there, he wrote a monthly column in the Washington Post in which he criticized the crown prince's policy.
In his first column for the newspaper, Khashoggi said he feared being arrested in an apparent crackdown on dissent watched by the prince since he became the first to succeed his father, King Salman.
- You can read excerpts from some of his columns here.
