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Turkey shared Khashoggi recordings with Saudi, US and others
ANKARA, Nov 10, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Turkey has shared recordings linked to
the murder last month of journalist Jamal Khashoggi with Riyadh, Washington
and other capitals, President Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday.
“We gave the recordings, we gave them to Saudi Arabia, we gave them to
Washington, to the Germans, to the French, to the English,” he said in a
televised speech.
“They listened to the conversations which took place here, they know”, he
said. Officials added that no written documents had been shared.
Khashoggi was last seen entering the consulate on October 2 to obtain
documents for his forthcoming marriage.
After repeated denials, Saudi Arabia finally admitted the 59-year-old had
been murdered at the mission in a “rogue” operation.
However, Erdogan has accused the “highest levels” of the Saudi government
with ordering the hit, while some officials have pointed the finger at the
all-powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Some Turkish media and officials have said Ankara possessed an audio
recording of the murder and it had shared it with the head of the CIA Gina
Haspel when she visited Turkey in late October.
But the existence of such a recording has not been officially confirmed.
Khashoggi’s body has never been found, more than a month after he was
killed.
An advisor to Erdogan, Yasin Aktay, suggested last week that the body may
have been dissolved in acid.
Erdogan was speaking before flying to Paris to attend commemorations
marking the anniversary of the end of World War I.
BSS/AFP/ARS/1856 hrs