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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament in Ankara on Oct. 23. (Tumay Berkin / Reuters)
ANKARA – An audio recording that Turkish officials say that they have taken the time of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi as he was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Saudi Arabia, Britain, France and Germany in the United States, the Turkish president said Saturday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke at Ankara airport before departing for Paris for commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.
"We gave it to Saudi Arabia," he said of the recording. "We gave it to America. To the Germans, English, French, we gave it to all of them. "
Turkey has not said how it has a recording from inside the consulate.
Khashoggi, a contributor to the Washington Post World Opinion section, was killed at the Saudi Arabia Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 as he went to collect a document he needed to get married. Turkey has been killed by a 15-man Saudi hit squad that traveled to Istanbul from Saudi Arabia to kill him. Erdogan has previously said the orders of the highest levels of the Saudi government.
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