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Germany, France, UK, US and Saudi Arabia 'have Khashoggi tapes' Germany, France, UK, US and Saudi Arabia 'have Khashoggi tapes'
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Ankara has given recordings on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia, the US, Germany, France and Britain, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said.Ankara has given recordings on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia, the US, Germany, France and Britain, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said.
Turkish sources have said previously that authorities have an audio recording purportedly documenting the murder. Khashoggi, a critic of de facto Saudi ruler Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was killed in Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul consulate last month in a hit which Erdogan says was ordered at the “highest levels” of the Saudi government.
Speaking before his departure for France to attend commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war, Erdoğan said Saudi Arabia knew that Khashoggi’s killer was among a group of 15 people who arrived in Turkey the day before the journalist’s death. Speaking as he left Turkey to attend first world war one commemorations in France, which are being attended by the US president and European leaders, Erdoğan said for the first time that the three European Union states had heard the recordings.
Khashoggi’s body has still not been found a month after his disappearance when he entered the consulate to obtain marriage papers while his fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, waited outside. “We gave the tapes. We gave them to Saudi Arabia, to the United States, Germans, French and British, all of them. They have listened to all the conversations in them. They know,” Erdogan said.
The CIA director, Gina Haspel, heard an audio recording of Khashoggi’s death when she visited Istanbul, two sources told Reuters last month. A senior Saudi envoy was also played a recording, a source familiar with the matter said. Erdoğan did not give details of the contents of the tapes on Saturday but two sources with knowledge of the issue have told Reuters that Turkey has several audio recordings.
They include the killing itself and conversations pre-dating the operation which Turkey subsequently uncovered, the sources said. These had led Ankara to conclude from an early stage that the killing was premeditated, despite Saudi Arabia’s initial denials of any knowledge or involvement.
Saudi Arabia’s prosecutor Saud al-Mojeb has since said Khashoggi’s killing was planned in advance, although another Saudi official said Prince Mohammed had no knowledge of the specific operation.
Jamal KhashoggiJamal Khashoggi
TurkeyTurkey
Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia
Recep Tayyip ErdoğanRecep Tayyip Erdoğan
Middle East and North AfricaMiddle East and North Africa
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